Digital Economy Bill

My Lords, I beg to move Amendment 214. We all know that Ofcom has a great interest in traditional...

My Lords, I support the amendment. There is a huge amount of power in the hands of search engines...

My Lords, I too support the amendment. I thank the noble Lord for his explanation of what an algo...

My Lords, I, too, support the amendment. Yesterday, along with many of your Lordships, I attended...

My Lords, this is an important amendment because it touches upon the bigger issue of the impact o...

My Lords, I would like to support my noble friend in his amendment. Algorithms are basically math...

My Lords, I also thank the noble Lord, Lord Lucas, for putting down this amendment. Indeed, this ...

Before the noble Lord sits down, may I just ask him: is it not dangerous to make perfection the e...

My Lords, I know that the noble Earl himself is perfect in almost every way, so I would very much...

My Lords, I share the view that the noble Lord, Lord Clement-Jones, has expressed, that the amend...

My Lords, this has been a very interesting debate. We, particularly those of us of a certain age,...

My Lords, I thank noble Lords who have taken part in this very interesting debate. Clearly there ...

Before my noble friend sits down, can she tell us a little more about the involvement of the Roya...

I believe that my noble friend’s idea is very good. We hope to hear from the Royal Society and Br...

My Lords, I am very grateful to all who have spoken in this debate. This is something which the G...

Moved by

Lord Clement-Jones

215: Clause 75, page 78, line 11, leave out from “appeal,...

My Lords, I shall speak also to Amendment 216.

It is common ground that anyone affected by ...

My Lords, as I indicated at Second Reading, I am extremely uncomfortable with the proposed shift ...

My Lords, I support these amendments, which seem a very good compromise. They ensure fairness and...

My Lords, I am not a lawyer—I feel a bit uncomfortable joining this debate; I am sure there are i...

My Lords, I am obliged to the noble Lord, Lord Clement-Jones, for raising this matter because it ...

Judicial review itself varies according to whether or not there is a European element. If the rev...

With respect to the noble Lord, Lord Lester, I have to say no, because here we are dealing with j...

My Lords, I will not disguise the fact that I am not happy with the Minister’s reply. But I would...

Moved by

Lord Lester of Herne Hill

217: After Clause 76, insert the following new Cla...

My Lords, this is a paving amendment for this group of amendments. My noble friend Lord Clement-J...

I declare my interests in broadcasting as set out in the register. I support this group of amendm...

My Lords, I cannot work up the same sort of enthusiasm for the statutory underpinning of the BBC....

My Lords, I accept that I have a special interest, but I have yet to be bored by the noble Lord, ...

My Lords, I should declare that my wife works at Ofcom, so I have an interest of some relation to...

My Lords, I am grateful to all noble Lords who have taken part in this debate and in particular t...

Does the Minister agree that in future, in the event that the Government interfere, as they have ...

I will come to that. Of course, future Governments will have to make their own arrangements in ne...

The Minister has twice said that the licence fee is a tax. What is the basis of that? I would hav...

I certainly do not intend to make threats and I am hardly in a position to do so. I called it a t...

I am grateful to the Minister for his reply. I am not at all surprised and I remain optimistic. W...

If it is helpful, I am very happy to meet and discuss this.

What I am hoping will happen is that Lord Hall of Liverpool—the director-general—will meet Minist...

Before the noble Lord sits down, I wonder if I might remind him that it is “Lord Wood of Anfield”...

I apologise to the places, their populations and to the noble Lord, Lord Hall, himself. I beg lea...

Moved by

Lord Best

220: After Clause 76, insert the following new Clause—

“Duty...

I shall also speak to Amendments 221 and 222 in the names of the noble Lord, Lord Inglewood, the ...

My Lords, I am very grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Best, for his amendment. I agree with the ob...

My Lords, I support the drift of the amendment of the noble Lord, Lord Best; I think that we need...

I add my support to these amendments and also pay my respect to the noble Lord, Lord Best, who so...

My Lords, I was a member of that licence fee commission under Gavyn Davies in 1998. It may intere...

My Lords, I wish to speak to Amendments 222B, 222C and 222D, which go together and which draw on ...

My Lords, I too add my voice to say that it is important that the BBC’s funding should be transpa...

My Lords, I will make one brief point as a broadcaster who works for the BBC. When we speak about...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lords who tabled these amendments today, and in particular t...

As I listen to the noble Lord, the problem arises when he says, “That would be a matter for the G...

I understand the point the noble Lord is making; he illustrated it right at the beginning of his ...

My Lords, I am extremely grateful to all noble Lords who have spoken, all of whom spoke in suppor...

Moved by

Lord Stevenson of Balmacara

222E: After Clause 76, insert the following new ...

My Lords, I was slightly surprised at the way the Minister rebuffed concerns about the way in whi...

My Lords, I have much sympathy with the amendment moved by the noble Lord, Lord Stevenson, althou...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lords, Lord Stevenson and Lord Foster, for their contributio...

I thank the noble Lord, Lord Foster, for his not unqualified support. It was useful to have anoth...

Moved by

Lord Wood of Anfield

224: After Clause 79, insert the following new Clause—<...

My Lords, Amendment 224 is designed to protect the so-called listed events regime, the rules desi...

Moved by

Lord Gordon of Strathblane

224A: After Clause 79, leave out inserted paragra...

My Lords, Amendment 224A has the same objective as Amendment 224 but takes a marginally different...

My Lords, I apologise for not having spoken at Second Reading. Free-to-air broadcasting is someth...

My Lords, I intervened briefly on these points at Second Reading and I support at least the princ...

My Lords, I rise to make two observations, one of which makes me feel very old. I worked with the...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Wood of Anfield, for moving this amendment and I hope that...

My Lords, I thank noble Lords for that excellent short debate. I agree with much of what the nobl...

I think the noble Lord misunderstood me. I was trying to reassure him by saying that we will not ...

I appreciate that and I am grateful for it, but I fear that it is under threat by virtue of techn...

I am sorry to keep interrupting the noble Lord; what I said was that the regime is not under thre...

Well, I take “this time” to be this Parliament: that is the one I am in, and by the end of it the...

Moved by

Lord Borwick

225: After Clause 79, insert the following new Clause—

“O...

My Lords, I declare my interests in the register, and as a trustee for more than 20 years of the ...

My Lords, I think that many of us responding to the amendment in the name of the noble Lord, Lord...

My Lords, I am delighted to add my support to the amendment, and to thank the noble Lord very muc...

My Lords, there is a general air of unanimity and approval for this amendment: I think the noble ...

I support Amendment 225, tabled by the noble Lord, Lord Borwick, and thank him for introducing it...

My Lords, I too thank my noble friend Lord Borwick for tabling such a worthy amendment, which the...

Moved by

Lord Wood of Anfield

226A: After Clause 80, insert the following new Clause—...

Once again, I am pretending to be my noble friend Lord Stevenson. Amendment 226A concerns rules e...

My Lords, I put my name to this very important amendment. The noble Lord, Lord Wood, has said mos...

My Lords, I put my name to this amendment, so I shall speak briefly in support of it. It simply s...

My Lords, I am delighted to follow the noble Lord, Lord Low, and to support Amendment 226A, relat...

My Lords, I support Amendment 226A. This is an important attempt to future-proof the prominence o...

My Lords, I support this amendment. I too am concerned that it is becoming more and more difficul...

My Lords, I appeal for some leeway from the Committee in that I am popping in to support this ame...

My Lords, I support the amendment but come at it from a slightly different angle. The noble Baron...

My Lords, clearly there is a lot of agreement about your Lordships’ Communications Committee’s re...

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who contributed to the debate. I have to warn the noble Lord, L...

Before the Minister sits down—I am looking at the general duties of Ofcom and I am failing to und...

No, what I am saying is that we do not see that there is compelling evidence of harm to PSBs.

My Lords, we have had various contributions across the House of excellent quality. We have the no...

Moved by

Lord Ashton of Hyde

227: After Clause 84, insert the following new Clause—