Digital Economy Bill
Wednesday, 8 February 2017
Bills
House of Lords
Moved by
Lord Mendelsohn
1: Clause 1, page 2, leave out lines 4 and 5 and insert—
...My Lords, I am pleased to move Amendment 1 in my name and that of my noble friend Lord Stevenson ...
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My Lords, I associate myself with, and support, Amendment 1. The noble Lord, Lord Mendelsohn, cov...
My Lords, I declare an interest immediately, because in both my household and my neighbour’s hous...
My Lords, I fully support these amendments, although they use the term “United Kingdom”. I would ...
My Lords, I too support these amendments. At each stage of the Bill in your Lordships’ House, I f...
My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Mendelsohn, for his attention and for meeting us. I also t...
My Lords, I thank the Minister for this comments at the beginning, although I thought we were nic...
Moved by
Baroness Janke
3: Clause 1, page 2, line 5, at end insert—
“(2BA) If t...
My Lords, on this side of the House we are concerned about the whole issue of affordability. With...
I shall speak to Amendment 4. When an amendment along similar lines was debated in Committee, the...
My Lords, that was encouragingly short. I thank noble Lords for their amendments. The noble Baron...
I thank the Minister for his response. In relation to the findings of the Ofcom report, I note th...
Moved by
Lord Clement-Jones
5: After Clause 2, insert the following new Clause—
My Lords, Amendment 5 is an enhanced version of Amendments 14 and 15 in Committee, which the nobl...
My Lords, I support the amendment and thank the noble Lord, Lord Clement-Jones, for an outstandin...
My Lords, I am sorry that I was unable to satisfy noble Lords at Committee, so let me try again. ...
My Lords, I thank the Minister for that response. It was very interesting that we had the full ra...
Moved by
Lord Ashton of Hyde
6: Schedule 1, page 107, line 41, at end insert—
“...
My Lords, the Committee debates afforded the opportunity to cover many areas of the Electronic Co...
My Lords, I thank the Minister and his team, especially Kellie Hurst, for meeting and looking at ...
My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Grantchester, for explaining his amendment, which seeks to...
Moved by
Lord Ashton of Hyde
7: Schedule 1, page 108, line 33, leave out “90(2)(b)” a...
Moved by
Lord Ashton of Hyde
15: Schedule 1, page 160, line 22, after “Commissioners”...
Moved by
Lord Stevenson of Balmacara
17: After Clause 8, insert the following new Cla...
My Lords, we return to an issue which we discussed in Committee. At that time my proposed amendme...
My Lords, I shall be brief. I have in my pocket a mobile phone owned by Virgin Media. Virgin Medi...
My Lords, I am fortunate to follow the noble Lord, Lord Stevenson, whose comprehensive support of...
My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have spoken on this technical but important subject. The in...
I gather that the right way to respond is to say that I am obliged to the Minister for his respon...
Moved by
Baroness Buscombe
19: Before Clause 28, insert the following new Clause—
...My Lords, Amendment 19 fulfils a manifesto commitment to enhance the public lending right by exte...
My Lords, I take this opportunity to congratulate the Government on introducing this amendment, f...
My Lords, I add my voice to the thanks offered to the Minister by the noble Earl, Lord Clancarty,...
My Lords, I too welcome the amendment; it is well worth while, but it is worth making a point I m...
My Lords, we welcome the Government’s tabling their amendment on this issue, as promised. In Comm...
I thank all noble Lords who have spoken in this short debate. I shall refer to Amendment 23, tabl...
Moved by
Lord Stevenson of Balmacara
20: Clause 28, page 29, line 23, at end insert—<...
My Lords, when this matter appeared in Committee during our discussions on the intellectual prope...
My Lords, there is equal enthusiasm on these Benches for this amendment. The noble Lord, Lord Ste...
My Lords, I want to reiterate a point I made in Committee about the context in which young people...
My Lords, I understand that the extent of what is happening is such that it is a genuine mischief...
I thank all noble Lords who have taken part in this important debate on an issue that we take ext...
Before the noble Baroness sits down, could I just tease out what she has just said? Could that be...
I cannot make a commitment that we will bring this back at Third Reading. We would certainly thin...
I thank the Minister for her comments. I am sorry she is not minded to use the opportunity afford...
Moved by
Lord Clement-Jones
21: Clause 30, page 29, line 38, at beginning insert—
...My Lords, I hope this will be a short debate. I was pleased to see the Government’s response to t...
My Lords, I voice my admiration for the noble Lord, Lord Clement-Jones, and his dogged determinat...
In Committee, and again here today, noble Lords have expressed their desire to see a swift repeal...
My Lords, I thank the Minister for the first half of her reply. She repeated pretty much what was...
Moved by
Lord Clement-Jones
24: After Clause 30, insert the following new Clause—
...My Lords, in Committee I explained the importance to authors and other creators of transparency, ...
My Lords, I support the amendment of the noble Lord, Lord Clement-Jones. He talked about the prin...
My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Clement-Jones, for raising this again today. As b...
My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have taken part in this debate on Amendment 24, tabled by t...
My Lords, I congratulate the noble Baroness, Lady Buscombe, on finding a new argument at the end;...
Moved by
Lord Stevenson of Balmacara
25: After Clause 30, insert the following new Cl...
My Lords, I move Amendment 25 and am grateful for the support of my noble friend Lady Jones and t...
My Lords, I am delighted to support the amendment in the names of the noble Lord, Lord Stevenson,...
My Lords, Amendment 25 returns to the topic of search engines and copyright and would give the Go...
Although I am grateful to the Minister for her robust comments about our amendment, I profoundly ...
Moved by
Baroness Janke
25A: After Clause 30, insert the following new Clause—
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My Lords, I have resubmitted this amendment because we consider this to be a matter of concern. A...
My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Baroness for waiting patiently for the last group of amendme...
I thank the noble Lord for his response. Certainly, his comment that electrical products are spec...
I am certainly happy to do that. I have a note on counterfeit electricals that I cannot read, so ...
I thank the noble Lord. I beg leave to withdraw the amendment.