Digital Economy Bill

Moved by

Lord Paddick

68: After Clause 23, insert the following new Clause—

“An...

The amendment is in my name and that of my noble friend Lord Clement-Jones and the noble Baroness...

My Lords, I want to say a few words because I have been working on the issue of age verification ...

I would, maybe, accept the noble Earl’s point in this particular context, but the ID card has, of...

Absolutely; I know what the noble Lord means. I simply meant that this is not necessarily an ID a...

I do not want to overload the Front-Bench contributions from this side, or to turn this into a mu...

My Lords, I support the amendment and congratulate the noble Earl on all the hard work he has don...

I support the comments that have been made by a number of noble Lords. I think we all understand ...

My Lords, I am grateful to all noble Lords again, particularly the noble Earl, Lord Erroll, for t...

My Lords, I am very grateful for noble Lords’ contributions to this short debate, particularly to...

Moved by

Baroness Jones of Whitchurch

70: After Clause 26, insert the following new C...

My Lords, as well as moving Amendment 70, I shall also speak to Amendments 71AA and 71AB, all of ...

My Lords, this group of amendments includes Amendment 233A, which is in my name and that of my no...

My Lords, I had not intended to speak on this point, but this may be relevant evidence. Last year...

My Lords, it has been suggested to me that this group of amendments could also be used in the cod...

My Lords, the Government take the harm caused by online abuse and harassment very seriously, and ...

My Lords, first, I am grateful to the noble Baroness, Lady Janke, for stressing her point on enfo...

Moved by

Baroness Jones of Whitchurch

71: After Clause 26, insert the following new C...

My Lords, Amendment 71 requires schools to teach the risks and dangers of internet pornography, a...

My Lords, I added my name to the amendment. I find it bizarre that we have spoken for a couple of...

My Lords, since the Bill introduces age verification, it follows that that children must be infor...

My Lords, I shall speak very briefly, as my name is on this amendment, to support what other nobl...

My Lords, I think we can all agree—and I certainly do—that this amendment has expressed very wort...

I thank the Minister and the other noble Lords who spoke in support. What the Minister said was q...

Moved by

Lord Stevenson of Balmacara

71A: After Clause 26, insert the following new C...

My Lords, we spent a considerable amount of time earlier in Committee on the question of the powe...

My Lords, I support the amendment but not necessarily for the reasons articulated by the noble Lo...

My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Paddick, has just given the speech that I was rather expecting the...

My Lords, I am grateful to noble Lords who contributed to this brief debate, especially the noble...

I thank those who have contributed to the debate. I should make it very clear that I was not in a...

Moved by

Lord Stevenson of Balmacara

71B: Clause 27, page 28, line 8, at end insert—<...

My Lords, this moves us into Part 4 and intellectual property. We start with rather a narrow but ...

My Lords, as the noble Lord, Lord Stevenson, has said, we strongly support this amendment and I a...

I too support Amendments 71B and 79A. It is perhaps worth reiterating my interests as a film make...

Very briefly and anecdotally, I had a briefing session with Sky and the Motion Picture Associatio...

My Lords, I, too, will be brief, but I think it is important that we keep pointing out the number...

My Lords, Amendments 71B and 79A seek to expand the existing criminal liability for making or dea...

Before the noble Lord, Lord Stevenson, expresses his view of the Minister’s response, may I ask h...

I respect what the noble Lord has just asked, but I did say—maybe I was not clear—that we would r...

Weeks not months?

Absolutely—weeks. We will ask investigators, prosecutors and industry representatives whether the...

That does not include material that would not be shown otherwise on either a tablet, a computer o...

My Lords, we are talking about taking on the seriously important issue of all illegal access. Tha...

This has been a very useful exchange and I think that we have moved forward a little. I think the...

Moved by

Lord Clement-Jones

73: Clause 29, page 29, line 32, leave out subsections (3...

My Lords, in moving Amendment 73 I wish to speak also to Amendment 235. It has been a longish roa...

I must advise the Committee that if Amendment 73 is agreed to, I cannot call Amendment 73A by rea...

My Lords, I declare an interest as a director and producer of television programmes for public se...

My Lords, I should like to say a few words in support of Amendments 73 and 235, to which I have a...

My Lords, this has been a good debate on a topic that has been well rehearsed in this House. I ha...

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have taken part in this important debate on the issue of re...

My Lords, I thank the noble Viscount, Lord Colville, and the noble Lord, Lord Black, for their co...

My Lords, I will not be tempted at this stage, but I repeat that, when we get to Report, I think ...

My Lords, that is even more positive than the first time around. In those circumstances, we will ...

Moved by

Lord Clement-Jones

74: After Clause 29, insert the following new Clause—

My Lords, I am very conscious of the time and I will try to be as brief as I can. The amendment i...

My Lords, I apologise for not having spoken at Second Reading. I want, however, to speak to Amend...

My Lords, conscious as I am of the time, I shall simply say that I hope that the Minister will be...

My Lords, I too support this amendment, but—there is a “but” to it—there are of course two types ...

My Lords, I intervene briefly to support this amendment, which seeks to rebalance the need for pu...

My Lords, briefly, I apologise to the House for the brevity of our Amendment 79B. We ran out of t...

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords for this important debate and for this proposed new clause. It ...

My Lords, I thank those who have taken part in the debate. The noble Earl, Lord Clancarty, has th...