Online Safety Bill

As we know from proceedings in this place, the Online Safety Bill is incredibly important. I am d...

As I am sure my hon. Friend the Member for Penistone and Stocksbridge (Miriam Cates) will agree, ...

I thank my hon. Friend and my hon. Friend the Member for Penistone and Stocksbridge (Miriam Cates...

My hon. Friend will know that Ministers and officials in his Department have worked extensively—I...

I thank my right hon. Friend for his work on this, and Baroness Kidron for her work. I will cover...

The Minister is setting out a powerful case for how the Government have listened to the overtures...

This is a difficult path to tread in approaching this issue for the first time. In many ways, the...

I agree with the Minister that this is a groundbreaking Bill, but we must be clear that there are...

The hon. Lady asks an important question, and that is the essence of what we are doing. We have t...

Further to that point about the remaining gaps in the Bill, I appreciate what the Minister says a...

Undoubtedly we will have to come back to that point. Not everything needs to be in the Bill at th...

I have two things to ask. First, will the Minister spell out more clearly how Parliament will be ...

The right hon. Lady raises some interesting points. We have conversed about harms, so I totally g...

The review mechanism strikes me as one of the places where the Bill falls down and is weakest, be...

I have talked about the fact that we have to keep this legislation under review, because the land...

Does my hon. Friend agree that the companies already say in their terms of service that they do n...

My hon. Friend makes an important point, and I thank him for the amazing work he has done in gett...

I am grateful for the amendment, which I think is important. Will the Minister make it clear that...

Indeed, we will not be accepting those amendments, but I will cover more of that later on, after ...

I call the Opposition spokesperson.

Before I address the amendments at hand, let me first put on record my thanks for the incredible ...

My hon. Friend is making an important speech. It is clear that the Government want to tackle harm...

I thank my hon. Friend for that intervention. He has been a passionate advocate on that point, sp...

I call the Chair of the Select Committee.

I welcome the return of the Online Safety Bill from its exhaustive consideration in the other pla...

I commend my hon. Friend for her remarks. May I point out that there is a provision in European l...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right to point that out. Much of the European legislation on this wa...

Order. Thirteen Members wish to participate in the debate. The winding-up speeches will need to s...

It is a pleasure to speak during what I hope are the final stages of the Bill. Given that nearly ...

The hon. Lady is making an excellent speech, but it is critical to understand that this is not ju...

The right hon. Gentleman is entirely correct. Whether it involves a particularly right-wing cause...

The hon. Lady is making a very good speech. When I first came to this House, which was rather a l...

I completely support the right hon. Member’s point—I would love to see this happening on an annua...

The draft Bill was published in April 2021, so it is fantastic that we are now discussing its fin...

My hon. Friend makes a powerful point, echoing the comments of Members on both sides of the House...

The length of the process we have gone through on this Bill is a good thing, because we have ende...

In addition to the idea of annual scrutiny raised by my right hon. Friend the Member for Haltempr...

When I chaired the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee, we set up a Sub-Committee to cons...

It is very kind of you to call me to speak, Mr Deputy Speaker. I apologise to your good self, to ...

Once a child sees something, they cannot unsee it. This is not just about parental controls; we h...

The hon. Lady makes an excellent point. Let me just illustrate it by saying that each of us in ou...

This Bill may well have been with us since April 2021 and been subject to significant change, but...

As we reflect on the Bill today, it is important to say that it has been improved as it has progr...

Has the hon. Gentleman noted, I hope with satisfaction, that the Government yesterday and today h...

I thank the hon. Gentleman for his intervention. It is important that the Government have announc...

I rise to speak to Lords amendment 231 on visible identity verification. I will not press the ame...

My hon. Friend is making a powerful case. Umberto Eco, the Italian philosopher, described the int...

I am interested in that intervention, but I fear it would lead us into a very long discussion and...

I pay tribute to the way my hon. Friend has focused on this issue through so many months and year...

Absolutely. Given the fast nature of social media and the tech world, and how quickly they adapt—...

As others have done, I welcome the considerable progress made on the Bill in the other place, bot...

My right hon. and learned Friend has mentioned Ofcom several times. I would like to ask his opini...

My hon. Friend makes a fair point. One difficult part of our legislative journey with the Bill is...

It is a pleasure to follow my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Kenilworth and Southam...

Let me start, like others, by saying how extraordinarily pleased I am to see the Bill return to t...

I have three more speakers. I ask that colleagues bear that in mind so that I can bring in the Mi...

I would like to mention a very long journey in relation to the protection of children, because to...

I will follow on from the remarks made by my right hon. Friend the Member for Chelmsford (Vicky F...

Does my hon. Friend agree that what has really put their teeth on edge most of all is the idea th...

My hon. Friend is completely right. The impact of not taking responsibility for protecting childr...

I congratulate the hon. Lady on the excellent efforts she has made over a long period to highligh...

I thank the hon. Gentleman for his support. What he says is entirely correct.

The key to th...

I want to speak briefly about Lords amendments 195 and 153, which would allow Ofcom, coroners and...

I thank all right hon. and hon. Members for their contribution to the debate today and, indeed, r...

I thank the Minister for engaging with us on access to private property and for setting up, with ...

The hon. Gentleman is talking about the access of coroners, families and others to information, f...

Will the Minister make it clear that we should expect the companies to use proactive technology, ...

My hon. Friend absolutely nails it. He said earlier that businesses are already collecting this d...

As Carnegie UK Trust observed online, a child born on the day the Government first published thei...

I do not think I need to respond to that, but it goes to show does it not?

My hon. Friend t...

It has just crossed my mind that the Minister might be saying that he agreed with everything that...

I thank my right hon. Friend for that intervention. Indeed, end-to-end encrypted services are in ...

Can the Minister confirm whether the letter I received from the Minister of State, Ministry of Ju...

I was just coming to that. I thank my right hon. Friend for the rest of her speech. She always sp...

On the small high-harm platforms that are now in the scope of the Bill, will the Minister join me...

I will certainly look at that. Our intention is that in all areas, especially relating to childre...