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Online Abuse

e-petition debate on Monday, 29 April 2019, in the House of Commons, led by Helen Jones. The answering members were Liam Byrne and Margot James.
Motion that this House has considered e-petition 190627 relating to online abuse. Agreed to on question. Sitting adjourned without Question put.
Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
659 cc1-24WH 
Session
2017-19
Chamber / Committee
Westminster Hall
Proceeding contributions
Joan Ryan | 659 c1WH (Link to this contribution)

I draw hon. Members’ attention to the fact that our proceedings are being made accessible for peo...

Helen Jones | 659 cc1-2WH (Link to this contribution)

I beg to move,

That this House has considered e-petition 190627 relating to online abuse.


Show all contributions (40)
Catherine McKinnell | 659 c2WH (Link to this contribution)

I thank the Chair of the Petitions Committee for giving way. She and I worked together on the rep...

Helen Jones | 659 cc2-4WH (Link to this contribution)

My hon. Friend is exactly right, and I will come to that point later in my remarks.

Online,...

Hannah Bardell | 659 c3WH (Link to this contribution)

The hon. Lady is making an excellent speech and is setting out some really unbelievable issues th...

Helen Jones | 659 c3WH (Link to this contribution)

The hon. Lady makes a very valid point. I will move on to legislation shortly.

Our inquiry ...

Helen Jones | 659 c3WH (Link to this contribution)

I will give way to the hon. Gentleman, but then I must make progress.

Jim Shannon | 659 c3WH (Link to this contribution)

I thank the hon. Lady for making a very passionate and capable speech. Does she agree that perhap...

Helen Jones | 659 cc5-6WH (Link to this contribution)

Whether there should be a particular person charged with that is one issue, but I think disabled ...

Catherine McKinnell | 659 c6WH (Link to this contribution)

My hon. Friend is being generous with her time. From the most appalling case in my constituency—t...

Helen Jones | 659 cc6-7WH (Link to this contribution)

I agree. We say in our report that

“mate crime is hate crime”,

and it should be treat...

Lord Herbert of South Downs | 659 cc7-10WH (Link to this contribution)

I welcome this debate and am grateful to the Petitions Committee for ensuring that it happened. I...

Lyn Brown | 659 cc8-11WH (Link to this contribution)

It is an absolute pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms Ryan. I will take a few minutes t...

Alex Sobel | 659 c11WH (Link to this contribution)

Much social media abuse is organised in secret and closed groups. The trolls then dogpile and har...

Lyn Brown | 659 cc11-2WH (Link to this contribution)

My hon. Friend is right. When I was shadow Minister of State for Policing, I visited police force...

Bill Grant | 659 cc12-3WH (Link to this contribution)

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms Ryan. My thanks to the hon. Member for Warr...

Hannah Bardell | 659 cc13-5WH (Link to this contribution)

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Ms Ryan, and to speak in this debate. I pay tribu...

Liam Byrne | 659 cc14-6WH (Link to this contribution)

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms Ryan. I, too, congratulate Katie Price and ...

Lord Herbert of South Downs | 659 c16WH (Link to this contribution)

I was quite clear that action needed to be taken across the board, and that social media companie...

Liam Byrne | 659 cc16-7WH (Link to this contribution)

I am grateful for that because I believe we are on the same page. I agree with the right hon. Gen...

Margot James | 659 cc17-8WH (Link to this contribution)

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms Ryan. I congratulate the Petitions

Lyn Brown | 659 c19WH (Link to this contribution)

I am delighted to hear what the Minister has just said, and I know that Glitch will be, too. Shou...

Margot James | 659 c19WH (Link to this contribution)

I thank the hon. Lady very much for her support. It is very important that we work across parties...

Hannah Bardell | 659 c19WH (Link to this contribution)

I will follow on from that intervention, because the Minister will also find friends on the SNP B...

Margot James | 659 c19WH (Link to this contribution)

I agree; a cross-party approach is much more powerful. We want to spend our time not arguing acro...

Hannah Bardell | 659 c19WH (Link to this contribution)

The Minister is being generous in giving way. I do not think that the Petitions Committee wrote t...

Margot James | 659 c20WH (Link to this contribution)

That is an excellent suggestion. I am happy to put that to my hon. Friend the Minister for Sport,...

Liam Byrne | 659 c20WH (Link to this contribution)

The Minister is being generous. The only danger with introducing such statistics, which all the s...

Margot James | 659 c20WH (Link to this contribution)

I certainly agree with the right hon. Gentleman. I am sorry if I gave that impression; I wanted t...

Helen Jones | 659 c20WH (Link to this contribution)

One thing that tech companies need to do, as the police, GCHQ and other authorities do, is provid...

Margot James | 659 cc20-1WH (Link to this contribution)

The hon. Lady makes a good point; people would need that. I believe more and more counselling is ...

Lord Austin of Dudley | 659 c21WH (Link to this contribution)

They are cheering you on, Minister. Take it while you can.

Margot James | 659 cc21-2WH (Link to this contribution)

I see that we have had a change of Chair. It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship as we...

Liam Byrne | 659 c22WH (Link to this contribution)

Before the Minister finishes, I am grateful for the opportunity to ask her whether she thinks tha...

Margot James | 659 cc22-3WH (Link to this contribution)

I am afraid that I cannot give the right hon. Gentleman that assurance. We are not sure when the ...

Helen Jones | 659 cc23-4WH (Link to this contribution)

I thank all the Members who have spoken this afternoon for their useful contributions to the deba...

Lyn Brown | 659 c24WH (Link to this contribution)

I am grateful to my hon. Friend, and to the Minister for what she has said today. I want to menti...

Helen Jones | 659 c24WH (Link to this contribution)

My hon. Friend makes a good point. Today’s debate is perhaps an example of how debates should be ...

Lord Austin of Dudley | 659 c24WH (Link to this contribution)

Before we proceed, we should all thank the sign language interpreters, who have been ensuring tha...

Notes
This debate was made accessible to people who are deaf or hearing impaired. The interpreters used BSL and parliament.tv showed simultaneous interpretation and used live subtitling.
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