Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill

With this it will be convenient to discuss:

Lords amendment 12, and Government motion to di...

It is a pleasure to bring this groundbreaking Bill back to the House. It will drive innovation an...

The Liberal Democrats welcome the fact that the Government are finally acting on the CMA’s recomm...

I thank the hon. Lady for her intervention and for the amendment, which I will speak to in a mome...

My hon. Friend is right that the amendments that were agreed on Report in this House struck the r...

I thank my right hon. and learned Friend for his intervention and his earlier engagement, when he...

The point about a “proportionate” response is relevant. In the original drafting of the Bill, the...

We have engaged significantly, throughout the Bill’s passage and before it was introduced, with l...

It is clearly important that we understand what “proportionate” means in this context. Is the Gov...

My right hon. and learned Friend will know from his legal background that the term “proportionate...

The Minister suggested that stakeholders were now satisfied with the Bill. I can tell him that th...

It is not our intention. Our intention is to strike a balance. As I have said, the courts’ approa...

I am very grateful to the Minister for giving way. I know that we have debated this point before,...

It is not right to say that there have been only two prosecutions—

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I will just finish this answer. There have been two sentences. Two people got a £6.1 million fine...

The Government claim that they are doing enough, but that is just not the case. Here is an exampl...

I agree that some of the examples are shocking. The key question is what measures we will put in ...

First, I pay tribute to my much-loved neighbour, my hon. Friend the Member for Pontypridd (Alex D...

Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

Of course I will, to the right hon. Gentleman—another gentleman for whom I have a great deal of r...

I just wonder whether the transformation that the hon. Gentleman describes, which occurs when som...

The right hon. Gentleman knows more about bobbing between the Back Benches and the Front Bench th...

How would a tribunal consider the appropriateness of a CMA intervention without considering the d...

The point is that either the change is necessary because a new and different measure is being ado...

Will my hon. Friend give way?

I feel the fingernails.

I waited until my hon. Friend got to the end of all those disgraceful, abhorrent examples. Will h...

I completely agree, and that is Labour party policy. I am used to fallacies being written about m...

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I feel more fingernails.

My fingernails are nothing like as bad. Does my hon. Friend agree that the problem is actually wo...

I completely agree, and my hon. Friend is absolutely right. There are terrible instances of all s...

It was your idea.

Well, we have moved on and it is about time the Government moved on—in fact I look forward to the...

May I start by saying that this was and still is a good Bill? It does an enormous number of very ...

I am very happy to make that commitment. We believe the Bill draws a clear distinction between in...

I thank the Minister for that intervention and, emboldened by my success so far in getting him to...

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He does, which is marvellous.

The revised wording did not change the effects of the clause. Strategic market status firms will ...

We are making marvellous progress and ending up with changes being confirmed on the Floor of the ...

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I am sure this will be an equally constructive intervention, of course.

Would it not be even more helpful if the Minister were to say he would change the explanatory mem...

I am sure the Minister will grab that opportunity in his closing remarks, if he so wishes. At lea...

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And again.

The shadow Minister and I are having this debate vicariously, but I just note that the wording in...

I am on a roll here.

The final of the four issues in question is proportionality. We have h...

indicated assent.

The Minister is nodding, but I do not know whether he intends to intervene again.

indicated dissent.

We will have to preserve our souls in patience for the Minister’s closing remarks. I will declare...

Scottish National party Members continue to support this Bill, and we support each of the Lords a...

I will speak briefly on the question that I raised earlier in the debate about the change of lang...

My hon. Friend is, as ever, making a good case. As he knows, I agree with him about the need for ...

My right hon. and learned Friend makes an important point. We could have a digital service provid...

I rise to speak against the Government motion to disagree with Lords amendment 104. As we have al...

I welcome the opportunity to speak in this debate, and it is a pleasure to follow my hon. Friend ...

I commend my hon. Friend for all her work over a very long period on this important issue. It is ...

It absolutely is. It is not a level playing field at all. I was going to come to the bots, and th...

I do not want my hon. Friend’s dying breath. Did she notice that the lovely Minister did not even...

That is a good observation. To hazard a guess, the Minister probably agrees with the Lords amendm...

My hon. Friend is making a really important point. She rightly points out the degree of criminali...

It is very interesting that my hon. Friend has come to the same conclusion I have. I have made th...

It is an absolute privilege to follow my hon. Friend the Member for Washington and Sunderland Wes...

Today I want to speak in support of Lords amendment 104 and the Lords amendments relating to fore...

It comes back to the point about bots. Even the most tech-savvy person cannot beat the bots, and ...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right. We have families struggling to buy tickets for their children...

Is it not important to emphasise that this issue needs legislation? Lots of venues have tried the...

I absolutely agree with my hon. Friend. We have tried to nip this in the bud by bringing it to th...

With the leave of the House, I will respond to some of the points raised in this fruitful, constr...

I am grateful to the Cheshire cat for giving way. Does he oppose the Lords amendment on ticket to...

We believe that those measures, such as on the face value of the ticket, are already covered by t...

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I will address the hon. Lady’s points in a moment, as I am keen to respond to some of them.

If the Minister goes to the Viagogo website and tries to buy a ticket, he will see on the first p...

We believe those provisions are already there. I have quite happily used Viagogo on many occasion...

On that point, will the Minister give way?

I will come to the hon. Lady’s points in a moment.

On the things we are doing to hold big t...

I counsel the Minister against what he is doing. As his colleague in the Department for Culture, ...

The hon. Lady is right to say that there is a difference between legislation and enforcement. We ...

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May I make it clear that I was not accusing the hon. Member for Worsley and Eccles South of crowd...

On the point about Taylor Swift and whether any of her tickets have been sold on the secondary ma...

Yes, I have just googled sellers of tickets in Dublin, and people can buy tickets well in excess ...

I am very grateful to the Minister for giving way. I want to take him back to his comment that wh...

I thank the hon. Member for his points. I said not that legislation was not needed, but that ther...

Unlike with trading standards, many cash-strapped families and young people fall for online scams...

I thank the hon. Lady for her intervention. She makes a very good point. I am happy to look at th...

Taylor Swift seems to be everywhere, even in the House of Commons, doesn’t she?

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