Digital Economy Bill

Another problem with the unpredictability is that people under some contracts pay for what they r...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right. That is why new clause 7 is so helpful. Consumers could preve...

I strongly support this proposal and the new clause. Constituents have contacted me specifically ...

I welcome my hon. Friend’s intervention in support of our proposal for caps on mobile phone bills...

It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Cardiff West (Kevin Brennan), and I share his regr...

My right hon. Friend says it is illegal for children to view adult material, but she will be awar...

My right hon. Friend, the former Secretary of State, makes an extremely important point. I suppos...

A large number of hon. and right hon. Members want to catch my eye. This debate finishes at 6.47p...

I am grateful, Madam Deputy Speaker, and I shall try to comply with your instructions. It is a gr...

I have great sympathy with what my right hon. Friend is saying. We talk glibly about access to te...

I am grateful to my hon. Friend for pointing that out. Earlier today I waded through schedule 1, ...

As the House knows, I welcomed part 3 of the Bill on Second Reading, but I did raise, as did many...

My hon. Friend says that this power is consistent with the guidelines that the regulator uses alr...

I do have great sympathy with the provisions my right hon. Friend has tabled; she is absolutely r...

I stand to speak to new clauses 22 and 27, neither of which I think the Minister referred to—unle...

In some circumstances, a consumer is unable to get what they have paid for. For example, I had co...

I wholeheartedly agree with that excellent point. This is another common-sense measure that shoul...

I wonder whether my hon. Friend is surprised, as I am, although perhaps I should not be, that the...

I thank my hon. Friend for that extra clarification. This is why we entered the Bill Committee in...

How we learned!

How we learned, indeed.

I now move on to my two new clauses. New clause 22 proposes that th...

My hon. Friend is making an excellent point. Does he agree that the people who need the service s...

I absolutely do agree. I will come on to that point later.

I would contrast the USO measure...

I did address this point. I said that the USO contained in the Bill will get high-speed broadband...

I thank the Minister for that intervention. He makes a point that I forgot to make, which is that...

As an example of the fact that we can do this through non-legislative means, not only did we have...

I thank the Minister for that positive news, but it does not take care of those concerns. I am se...

Order. We have about 15 minutes and quite a few Members wish to speak, so brevity would be fantas...

I start by making it clear that I fully support the provisions in the Bill to require age verific...

Will my right hon. Friend give way?

If my hon. Friend will forgive me, I am very conscious of the Deputy Speaker’s strictures.

...

I am pleased to take part in this debate, and I was pleased to put my name to new clause 1. I am ...

I support age verification completely. I have said that I support age verification.

The right hon. Gentleman said that, but he also said that he thought that this was a difficult ar...

I rise to support my new clause 25, on the ability of end-users to cancel mobile contracts. It is...

I would have liked to speak to new clauses 3, 14 and 21, but I will restrict myself to new clause...

I am pleased to say that I will not press my amendment 2, but that I will support new clause 29. ...

I rise to echo some of the concerns that have already been expressed by the right hon. Member for...

rose—

Unfortunately, the hon. Gentleman will not get his one minute of speaking time.

6.47 pm

I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time.

With this it will be convenient to discuss the following:

New clause 8—Responsibility for p...

We have 12 new clauses and amendments—and one that we withdrew so that the Select Committee could...

Does my hon. Friend find it shocking that just one of the 21 on-demand services offered through V...

It is a prime example. I might even have had it in my notes, before I truncated them considerably...

Does my hon. Friend accept that this is a political decision and that it is wrong to compromise t...

Far be it for me to accuse the Government of taking political decisions—this is the House of Comm...

I apologise for interrupting my hon. Friend’s flow once again, but the BBC was given this short s...

Indeed. That was my reason for using the metaphor of holding a loaded gun to the BBC’s head. Oppo...

I apologise for being controversial—the hon. Gentleman will not agree with me—but this is rather ...

It is an entirely legitimate point of view, but that is not what is under discussion. We are disc...

Does my hon. Friend agree that, given that this issue featured in the Conservative manifesto, it ...

My hon. Friend anticipates something that I was intending to say, but did not say. She is absolut...

Does my hon. Friend agree that true fans do not stand a chance nowadays, because touts have evolv...

I do agree with that. In Committee, the Minister told us a tear-jerking story about his efforts t...

I look forward to hearing my hon. Friend the Member for Washington and Sunderland West (Mrs Hodgs...

My hon. Friend makes her point passionately. I pay tribute to my hon. Friend the Member for Washi...

The Bill might not be the vehicle with which to do it, but another thing that needs to be tackled...

I entirely understand my hon. Friend’s point, but I shall stick strictly to the new clauses that ...

The issue of free school meals was raised in Committee. Does my hon. Friend agree that two-tier a...

I do agree. My hon. Friend made that point brilliantly in Committee, and I recommend that people ...

I am grateful for the new clause because it follows a private Member’s Bill that I introduced. Fo...

My right hon. Friend is correct. I was about to say that I wanted to praise him and, again, my ho...

This may have come up in Committee, and it might come up later on Report: the concern of the Nati...

The hon. Gentleman might have missed it, but we have already had Second Reading and Committee sta...

It might come up when we discuss my amendment.

Sorry, I forgot that my hon. Friend’s amendment is in this group.

Having spoken on the amen...

I will resist the temptation to be drawn by the hon. Member for Cardiff West (Kevin Brennan) into...

The right hon. Gentleman knows—he has probably seen the results from the Intellectual Property Of...

I do think that more needs to be done. The counter to the statistic that the hon. Gentleman has j...

My right hon. Friend mentioned earlier that there are possible industry-based solutions. I am rem...

I have a lot of sympathy with my hon. Friend on that. I was fortunate enough to attend one of the...

Does my right hon. Friend agree that since the Select Committee looked at this matter under his c...

I agree, and that was my experience, and indeed my right hon. Friend the Minister’s, despite our ...

I am pleased to follow the right hon. Member for Maldon (Mr Whittingdale). I was a little unkind ...

I think that clause 32, which comes earlier, should be mentioned, too, and I hope the Government ...

The hon. Gentleman is right.

Under the Bill, publications made in the media that are in the...

I can confirm that it is neither the intent, nor our understanding of the Bill, to do those thing...

I am glad that is not the Minister’s intent—I did not think that it was—but the Media Lawyers Ass...

In very simple terms, the question is: where is the public interest defence for a journalist?

The hon. Gentleman puts it very well.

I point out that we have the Official Secrets Act and...

Order. We have one hour and one minute left in this debate and many Members want to speak—and I s...

I will try to adhere to your guidelines, Madam Deputy Speaker.

I would like to speak to new...

I am grateful to the Chair of the Select Committee for giving way. I just want to place on record...

On behalf of the Select Committee, I am grateful to the hon. Lady for her words. I was certainly ...

I want to ask the Chair of the Select Committee whether, in among the penetrating questioning tha...

Those issues were covered in the Select Committee hearing; they are there in the transcript for a...

I completely agree with my hon. Friend on the diagnosis of the problem. I think everyone here sha...

My hon. Friend is right to say that it is in the interests of many different stakeholders in the ...

The hon. Gentleman mention smaller venues, and I want to put on record something that happens in ...

I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his comments; he is right.

We are proposing a way t...

I shall try to be brief because I am aware that a number of Members want to speak. I commend the ...

The hon. Gentleman makes a good point. The BBC did not really want the responsibility. Did the BB...

I wholeheartedly agree. I think people at the BBC were saying, “They’ve got us so worried about w...

Six parties are in support.

Six-party support; I thank the hon. Gentleman for his clarification. He is well deserving of his ...

I rise to answer the points made so far, but I hope there will be time afterwards for others who ...

Then why don’t you implement it?

Just you wait. We of course agree that authors should be recognised for e-lending by ensuring app...

I have already covered that point, but surely asking the other BBC licence fee payers, staff and ...

The point is that it is not a welfare benefit; it is about funding policy, and the BBC asked for ...

I am not normally reassured by the advent of a round table, but I am enormously reassured in this...

Yes, we have representatives of all sides coming to the round table, including my hon. Friend the...

I am grateful to the Minister for his comments, but would he tell us what is in the Bill to make ...

The proposals in the Bill are permissive, rather than requiring action. I would be concerned if w...

May I ask the Minister to keep a close eye on this, because in Wirral the number of families who ...

I am glad that there is a willingness for that data to be shared, because I share the right hon. ...

Before the Minister sits down, will he commit to writing to me about the amendments that I tabled...

Yes, of course. I will happily write to the hon. Lady about the detail of the concerns—I think th...

Order. We have 22 minutes left in this debate and 10 Members who wish to speak—that is two minute...

I want to address briefly the Minister’s comments on new clause 6. I welcomed his saying that he ...

Like my hon. Friend, I welcome the Minister’s commitment to return to the matter in the other pla...

Indeed. My hon. Friend makes my second point. The Minister indicated that discussions had taken p...

I would like to talk to new clause 31, which is incredibly important, and I am extremely grateful...

I rise to speak on new clause 24, which stands in my name and those of my hon. Friends and other ...

I support the Minister’s response to new clause 6, which will be useful.

New clause 8 refer...

I can confirm that any public prosecution has to be in the public interest. The public interest i...

I am grateful to my right hon. Friend. That may be the test of whether the prosecution is brought...

I rise to speak to new clause 23, which would ensure that all services provided by the UK Governm...

I rise to speak to new clause 34. I should start by saying that it is not an attack on Facebook o...

I want to speak for my two or three minutes in support of new clause 19 and new clause 31. I welc...

I thank the hon. Members who spoke for only two minutes. Their courtesy has been noticed and they...

Thank you ever so much, Madam Deputy Speaker. I refer the House to my entry in the Register of Me...

We have a whole minute to spare.

Since the Secretary of State will open the Third Reading debate, may I take this opportunity to t...

I will now suspend the House for no more than five minutes to make a decision about certification...

I can now inform the House of my decision about certification. For the purposes of Standing Order...

indicated assent.

The House forthwith resolved itself into the Legislative Grand Committee ...

The debate will take place now. Come on in, Mr Wishart.

I am very grateful to you, Mr Hoyle, and I promise to be brief when it comes to this substantial ...

Order. We cannot hear the hon. Gentleman.

We are discussing substantial and significant clauses that relate exclusively to England. We are ...

The former Prime Minister, David Cameron, stood on the steps of No. 10 Downing Street on 19 Septe...

I am grateful to my hon. Friend for raising that point. I have a copy of the report produced by t...

Order. I may be able to help. I think that there will be a speech to follow that of the hon. Gent...

Yes.

In that case, I call the Minister.

I shall not detain the House for long. All I can say is that the hon. Member for Perth and North ...

I beg to move, That the Bill be now read the Third time.

The Bill will cement the UK’s stat...

I thank my hon. Friends who served on the Public Bill Committee and the many individuals and orga...

We are seeing the internet come of age through this Bill. I very much welcome the change in the t...

I should like to add to the positive vibes coming from both Front Benchers and join them in thank...

Does my hon. Friend agree that constituents in all parts of this country want a fibre future and ...

I totally agree. The Government have missed an opportunity and I am disappointed that they did no...

I shall speak only briefly on Third Reading. I enjoyed being a member of the Public Bill Committe...

I will be brief. Overall, the work of the Bill Committee was positive, and there were several thi...