Online Safety Bill

Sir David was a friend to all of us, and he was very much at the forefront of my mind during the ...

A number of constituents have contacted me over the last few months about eating disorders, parti...

They will. Inciting people to take their own life or encouraging eating disorders in anorexia cha...

I will take one more intervention.

I am grateful to my right hon. Friend, and I thank her for her written communications regarding A...

Yes. Exactly those issues will be listed in secondary legislation, under “legal but harmful”. I w...

I am going to whizz through my speech now in order to allow people who have stayed and want to sp...

I will take just two more interventions and that will be it, otherwise people will not have a cha...

I am very grateful to my right hon. Friend for giving way. The internet giants that run the kind ...

These online giants will be held accountable to their own terms and conditions. They will be unab...

I thank the Secretary of State for giving way. She talked about how this Bill is going to protect...

The duties are mandatory; it is the Online Safety Bill and the metaverse is included in the Bill....

I will take one more intervention, but that is it.

I am grateful to my right hon. Friend for giving way. One of the most important national assets t...

We have already done that—it is already in the Bill.

Will my right hon. Friend give way?

No, I have to continue.

Not only will the Bill protect journalistic content, democratic con...

Order. Before I call the shadow Secretary of State, it will be obvious to the House that we have ...

Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. It has been a busy day, and I will try to keep my remarks short....

Will my hon. Friend give way?

I will give way once on this point.

I am grateful. The Secretary of State talked about getting the tech giants to follow their own ru...

I very much agree with my hon. Friend, and I will come on to talk about that shortly.

The O...

Will the hon. Lady give way?

I am not going to give way, sorry.

Before I get onto the specifics, I will address the main...

Will my hon. Friend give way?

I will give way one last time.

I thank my hon. Friend. The Government have set out the priority offences in schedule 7 to the Bi...

I will come on to some of those issues. My hon. Friend makes a valid point.

I fear the Gove...

Will my hon. Friend give way on that point?

I will not, sorry. Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen, who I had the privilege of meeting, cit...

Will the hon. Lady give way?

I am sorry, but too many people want to speak. Members should talk to their business managers, wh...

Order. The hon. Lady is not giving way. Let us get on with the debate.

The business managers have failed everybody on both sides given the time available.

A syste...

We will begin with a time limit of five minutes, but that is likely to reduce.

8.16 pm

Some colleagues have been in touch with me to ask my view on one overriding matter relating to th...

I call John Nicolson .

Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker, but I was under the impression that I was to wind up for my part...

If the hon. Gentleman would prefer to save his slot until later—

I would, Madam Deputy Speaker, if that is all right with you.

Then we shall come to that arrangement. I call Dame Margaret Hodge.

8.22 pm

Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. I hope that I will take only three minutes.

The human cost...

This Bill is a groundbreaking piece of legislation, and we are one of the first countries to atte...

In the interest of time, I will just pose a number of questions, which I hope the Minister might ...

indicated dissent .

The Minister is shaking his head, but I can tell him that the legislation does do that, because w...

This is an incredibly important Bill. It has huge cross-party support and was subject to scrutiny...

Order. After the next speaker, the time limit will be reduced to four minutes.

8.40 pm

Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker.

I want to focus on how people actually use the internet, p...

I, too, regret the short time we have to debate this important Bill this evening. This is much-ne...

I welcome the Bill. It is an important step forward, and it is because I welcome it that I want t...

Overall, I very much welcome the Bill. It has been a long time coming, but none of us here would ...

While long overdue, I welcome the Bill and welcome the fact that it goes some way to addressing s...

I had the great privilege of sitting on the Joint Committee on the draft Bill before Christmas an...

Ten-year-old Zach is a child in my constituency who has, as the hon. Member said, cerebral palsy ...

My understanding—hopefully this will be confirmed from the Dispatch Box—is that Zach’s law will b...

I welcome the Bill, which is necessary and overdue, but I would like to raise two issues: how the...

Order. I am reluctant to reduce the time limit, but I am receiving appeals for me to try to get m...

I congratulate the ministerial team and the army of fantastic officials who have brought this eno...

Obviously I, and my party, support the thrust of the Bill. The Government have been talking about...

I am a great believer in the good that social media has done over the last few decades. It has tr...

I speak in this debate as chair of the all-party parliamentary group on ticket abuse, which I set...

For too long, the tech giants have been able to dismiss the harms they create for the people we r...

Scotland banned cyber-flashing in 2010, but that ban includes a motivation test, rather than just...

I will come on to that shortly, and the hon. Lady knows I agree with her. This is something the G...

It is a pleasure to follow the right hon. Member for Basingstoke (Mrs Miller), and a number of co...

In the one minute you have given me to speak in this debate, let me make three brief points, Mada...

Everyone wants to be safe online and everyone wants to keep their children safe online but, from ...

Does the hon. Gentleman, with whom I served on the Joint Committee on the draft Bill, agree, havi...

Yes, and I shall return to that point later in my speech.

The Secretary of State’s powers i...

Will my hon. Friend give way?

No, I will make some progress, if I may.

A vital tool in countering disinformation is educa...

It is an honour to close this debate on behalf of the Opposition. Sadly, there is so little time ...

Does the hon. Lady share my disappointment and concern that the Bill does nothing to address misi...

I share the hon. Lady’s concern. There is so much more that is simply missing from this Bill, whi...

The piece of legislation before the House this evening is truly groundbreaking, because no other ...

I have spoken before about dangerous suicide-related content online. The Minister mentions larger...

It is very important to emphasise that, regardless of size, all platforms in the scope of the Bil...

Will the Minister give way?

I must make some progress, because I am almost out of time and there are lots of things to reply ...

rose—

rose—

I have so many points to reply to that I have to make some progress.

The Bill also enshrine...

The Minister just made it. I have rarely seen a Minister come so close to talking out his own Bil...

Order. Really, people just ought to have more courtesy than to get up and, when there is still bu...