Digital Economy Bill (HL). Consideration of Commons amendments. Commons amendments agreed to.
Digital Economy Bill [HL]
Debate on bills on Thursday, 8 April 2010,
in the House of Lords,
led by Lord Young of Norwood Green.
Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
718 c1713-34 
Session
2009-10
Legislative stage
Commons amendments
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
Proceeding contributions
Earl of Erroll | 718 c1728 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I will take the Minister’s assurance, because I suspect that that is true. I am not quite ...
Lord Young of Norwood Green | 718 c1728 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I was intending to respond—to reassure the ever watchful noble Lord, Lord Elton.
It is cl...
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Lord Young of Norwood Green | 718 c1728 (Link to this contribution)
6: Leave out Clause 18
Motion agreed.
Motion on Amendment 7
Moved by
Earl of Erroll | 718 c1727 (Link to this contribution)
5A: Line 1, leave out "or" and insert "and"
Lord Young of Norwood Green | 718 c1727 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, the aim of Commons Amendment 5 is to tidy up the text of enforcement of obligations and co...
Lord Elton | 718 c1728 (Link to this contribution)
Briefly, I did not quite seize what the noble Earl was saying at the end of his delivery to us. It s...
Earl of Erroll | 718 c1727-8 (Link to this contribution)
I do not intend to waste any time on this; it is just that when I looked at the amendment, I could s...
Lord Young of Norwood Green | 718 c1726-7 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I want to address some of the points that have been raised, starting with those made by th...
Lord Young of Norwood Green | 718 c1727 (Link to this contribution)
That the House do agree with the Commons in their Amendment 5.
5: Page 19, line 42, after "provide...
Earl of Erroll | 718 c1725-6 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I very much associate myself with the remarks of the noble Lord, Lord Whitty. They were ve...
Lord Whitty | 718 c1724-5 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, although I share with the noble Lord, Lord Clement-Jones, some of the reservations about a...
Lord Clement-Jones | 718 c1724 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, when Clauses 4 to 17 were discussed by my honourable friends in the other place at Second ...
Lord Young of Norwood Green | 718 c1723 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, as this House debated on several occasions during the Bill’s passage, imposing technical o...
Lord Young of Norwood Green | 718 c1723 (Link to this contribution)
That the House do agree with the Commons in their Amendments 3 and 4.
3: Clause 11, page 15, line ...
Lord Young of Norwood Green | 718 c1722-3 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I was pondering the response of the noble Lord, Lord Clement-Jones. I did not know whether...
Earl of Erroll | 718 c1720-2 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I should like to make a few comments on this proposed new clause. I agree with the noble L...
Lord Clement-Jones | 718 c1719-20 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, on Report—the Minister clearly set out the history of the provisions—these Benches, togeth...
Lord Howard of Rising | 718 c1719 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, the Government’s amendments contain several technical and substantive improvements to the ...
Lord Young of Norwood Green | 718 c1718 (Link to this contribution)
That the House do agree with the Commons in their Amendments 2, 6, 7 and 8.
2: Page 11, line 23, l...
Lord Young of Norwood Green | 718 c1718-9 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I beg to move that the House do agree with the Commons in their Amendments 2, 6, 7 and 8. ...
Viscount Bridgeman | 718 c1716-7 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I have been involved in the debate exclusively on Clause 43. It had admirable intentions t...
Lord Clement-Jones | 718 c1717 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, the specific question was: are the Government going ahead with the pilots? Our understandi...
Lord Young of Norwood Green | 718 c1717 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I will respond generally to what seems to be the Lib Dems’ rallying cry in this process ab...
Lord Clement-Jones | 718 c1718 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I am sorry to make the Minister jump up and down in this final session and I hope that I w...
Lord Young of Norwood Green | 718 c1718 (Link to this contribution)
I cannot say any more than I have done. As I say, whichever Government are in office after the elect...
Lord Clement-Jones | 718 c1718 (Link to this contribution)
So the answer is very clearly yes—those pilots will not be going ahead in the immediate future unles...
Lord Young of Norwood Green | 718 c1718 (Link to this contribution)
The pilots are separate from the provisions in the Bill as the pilot process has been run by the Gov...
Lord Young of Norwood Green | 718 c1718 (Link to this contribution)
I cannot add any more to the points that I have made. I do not disagree with the noble Lord.
With r...
Baroness Howe of Idlicote | 718 c1716 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I agree with the noble Lord, Lord Clement-Jones, and the chairman of the Select Committee....
Lord Young of Norwood Green | 718 c1713 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I beg to move that the House do agree with the Commons in their Amendment 1, as well as Am...
Lord Young of Norwood Green | 718 c1713 (Link to this contribution)
That the House do agree with the Commons in their Amendment 1.
That the House do agree with the Com...
Lord Maxton | 718 c1715-6 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I do not share the concerns expressed so far about the ending of these consortia having co...
Lord Fowler | 718 c1714-5 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, my criticisms of these amendments are not quite as general as those of the noble Lord. I r...
Lord Clement-Jones | 718 c1713-4 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, this is a sad outcome to a Bill that started with promise. At the outset of the passage of...
Lord Maxton | 718 c1716 (Link to this contribution)
As someone who is not a professional journalist and has no high regard for them, I think it is of ma...
Lord Fowler | 718 c1716 (Link to this contribution)
The difference, surely, is that under the current system that news is provided by professional journ...
Lord Young of Norwood Green | 718 c1734 (Link to this contribution)
I thank noble Lords. It has been a long and winding road. I cannot quite agree with the noble Lord, ...
Lord Faulkner of Worcester | 718 c1734 (Link to this contribution)
That the House do agree with the Commons in their Amendments 13 and 14.
13: Leave out Schedule 2
...
Lord Trefgarne | 718 c1733 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I have the utmost respect for the Minister. It is not a rule, I think, that the privilege ...
Lord Howard of Rising | 718 c1734 (Link to this contribution)
I, too, thank the Minister for his patience with all the opposition parties. I only hope that his da...
Lord Clement-Jones | 718 c1733 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I do not want to delay the House, as I can see serried ranks around me—unusually for the D...
Lord Young of Norwood Green | 718 c1733 (Link to this contribution)
That the House do agree with the Commons in their Amendment 12.
That the House do agree with the Co...
Lord Young of Norwood Green | 718 c1733 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, this is the privilege amendment. This is one of the last amendments and, before I conclude...
Lord Clement-Jones | 718 c1733 (Link to this contribution)
8A: As an amendment to the motion that this House do agree with the Commons in their Amendment 8, le...
Lord Young of Norwood Green | 718 c1733 (Link to this contribution)
That the House do agree with the Commons in their Amendments 9 to 11.
9: Leave out Clause 29
10:...
Earl of Erroll | 718 c1730 (Link to this contribution)
I spoke to this earlier, so it is probably better to say simply that I support the noble Lord, Lord ...
Lord Young of Norwood Green | 718 c1732 (Link to this contribution)
That the House do agree with the Commons in their Amendment 8.
That the House do agree with the Com...
Lord Clement-Jones | 718 c1730 (Link to this contribution)
That this House do agree with the Commons in their Amendment 7, leave out "agree" and insert "disagr...
Lord Clement-Jones | 718 c1730 (Link to this contribution)
I spoke to this amendment when I spoke to Motion 2.
Lord Young of Norwood Green | 718 c1729-30 (Link to this contribution)
7: Insert the following new Clause-
"Power to make provision about injunctions preventing access to ...
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