Digital Economy Bill

My Lords, I too thank the Minister for introducing the Bill and for the early discussions he has ...

My Lords, I, too, thank the Minister for introducing this important Bill. I declare that I feel a...

My Lords, I will make brief general remarks before focusing on Part 3, which deals with online po...

My Lords, I welcome the Bill, which shows the Government’s continuing significant interest in the...

My Lords, it is a great pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Baker. I am a great admirer of hi...

My Lords, in my opinion, which is widely supported across the House, we need to amend the Bill to...

My Lords, there are three areas of particular interest for me in this very wide-ranging Bill. The...

My Lords I draw your Lordships’ attention to my registered interests, such as they are these days...

My Lords, one of the most pleasing aspects of this Green Paper is the alacrity with which everyon...

My Lords, at this Second Reading of the Digital Economy Bill in your Lordships’ House it is a ple...

My Lords, first, I declare an interest as a trustee of long standing of the Ewing Foundation for ...

My Lords, I too thank the Minister for introducing the Bill. I am happy to declare a number of in...

My Lords, Article 19 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child confers upon chi...

My Lords, I speak briefly about two issues that have been brought to my attention and that concer...

My Lords, the Bill before us today takes significant steps towards a more digitally inclusive fut...

My Lords, I refer to my interests as set out in the register and I would like to make it clear th...

My Lords, I thank my noble friend the Minister for introducing this welcome Bill. Increasing the ...

My Lords, I am usually very pleased to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Wilcox, because she is usu...

My Lords, as my colleagues have said, there is much to be welcomed in the Bill and we support man...

My Lords, this Christmas-tree Bill offers some appealing packages and I hope that when the Minist...

My Lords, I congratulate my noble friend the Minister on introducing the Second Reading of this m...

My Lords, I welcome Part 3 of the Bill. Government data reveal that in May 2015 there were 1.4 mi...

My Lords, I believe that in practice this welcome Bill will be one of the most pervasive in its i...

My Lords, two years ago, when your Lordships debated the Deregulation Bill in Grand Committee, th...

My Lords, I rise to speak in this wide-ranging debate and would like to concentrate on issues con...

My Lords, my interests in television can be found in the register. I will speak about the clauses...

My Lords, the Digital Economy Bill does very little for the digital economy. Of course, it addres...

My Lords, it is a great pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Mitchell, who so clearly demonstr...

My Lords, I shall speak in support of the provisions around statistics in Chapter 7 of Part 5 of ...

My Lords, I declare an interest as an ex-BBC governor and a former BT employee—in the days when y...

My Lords, I welcome the Bill because it has some very useful stuff in it—but, like everything els...

My Lords, we are rapidly getting to the point where the egg is hatching and the chicken is emergi...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for introducing the Bill and I am grateful to all noble Lords who ...

My Lords, the fact that this is a wide-ranging Bill is not surprising when you consider how the d...

But that is if you are given a true 10 megabits per second, is it not? The complaint so often is ...

Yes, I quite agree—that is why I mentioned that Ofcom will provide technical details and advise o...

I am grateful to the Minister for giving way as it is late but this is a very important issue. I ...

We think it should be left to the market to decide that. My noble friend Lord Grade and the noble...

I am very grateful to the Minister as the hour is late. I am sure he appreciates that I made it c...

That is their position and I certainly will do that. If that point was not in a specific question...