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Digital Economy Bill

Debate on bills on Wednesday, 22 February 2017, in the House of Lords.
Lords report stage first day. Lords amendment 1 to clause 1 debated and agreed to on division (250 to 206). New clause (Lords amendment 5) debated and agreed to on division (244 to 198). New clause (Lords amendment 17) debated and withdrawn. New clause (Lords amendment 19) debated and agreed to. Lords amendment 20 to clause 28 debated and disagreed on division (133 to 182). New clauses (Lords amendment 24, 25 and 25A) debated and withdrawn. Some amendments made. Debate adjourned.
Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
779 cc335-388 
Session
2016-17
Legislative stage
Report stage
Procedure
New clauses
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
Digital Economy Bill 2016-17. As amended in Committee.
Wednesday, 8 February 2017
Bills
House of Lords
Deposited Paper DEP2017-0202
Thursday, 2 March 2017
Deposited papers
House of Lords
Proceeding contributions
Lord Mendelsohn | 779 c335 (Link to this contribution)

Moved by

Lord Mendelsohn

1: Clause 1, page 2, leave out lines 4 and 5 and insert—

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Lord Mendelsohn | 779 cc335-7 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I am pleased to move Amendment 1 in my name and that of my noble friend Lord Stevenson ...


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Lord Fox | 779 c338 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I associate myself with, and support, Amendment 1. The noble Lord, Lord Mendelsohn, cov...

Lord Wigley | 779 cc338-9 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I declare an interest immediately, because in both my household and my neighbour’s hous...

Lord Maxton | 779 c339 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I fully support these amendments, although they use the term “United Kingdom”. I would ...

Lord Mitchell | 779 c339 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I too support these amendments. At each stage of the Bill in your Lordships’ House, I f...

Lord Ashton of Hyde | 779 cc339-342 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Mendelsohn, for his attention and for meeting us. I also t...

Lord Mendelsohn | 779 cc341-3 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I thank the Minister for this comments at the beginning, although I thought we were nic...

Baroness Janke | 779 c344 (Link to this contribution)

Moved by

Baroness Janke

3: Clause 1, page 2, line 5, at end insert—

“(2BA) If t...

Baroness Janke | 779 c344 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, on this side of the House we are concerned about the whole issue of affordability. With...

Lord Fox | 779 c344 (Link to this contribution)

I shall speak to Amendment 4. When an amendment along similar lines was debated in Committee, the...

Lord Ashton of Hyde | 779 cc348-9 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, that was encouragingly short. I thank noble Lords for their amendments. The noble Baron...

Baroness Janke | 779 c349 (Link to this contribution)

I thank the Minister for his response. In relation to the findings of the Ofcom report, I note th...

Lord Clement-Jones | 779 cc349-350 (Link to this contribution)

Moved by

Lord Clement-Jones

5: After Clause 2, insert the following new Clause—

Lord Clement-Jones | 779 cc350-1 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, Amendment 5 is an enhanced version of Amendments 14 and 15 in Committee, which the nobl...

Lord Mendelsohn | 779 cc351-2 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I support the amendment and thank the noble Lord, Lord Clement-Jones, for an outstandin...

Baroness Buscombe | 779 cc352-4 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I am sorry that I was unable to satisfy noble Lords at Committee, so let me try again. ...

Lord Clement-Jones | 779 cc354-5 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I thank the Minister for that response. It was very interesting that we had the full ra...

Lord Ashton of Hyde | 779 c355 (Link to this contribution)

Moved by

Lord Ashton of Hyde

6: Schedule 1, page 107, line 41, at end insert—

“...

Lord Ashton of Hyde | 779 cc355-9 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, the Committee debates afforded the opportunity to cover many areas of the Electronic Co...

Lord Grantchester | 779 cc359-361 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I thank the Minister and his team, especially Kellie Hurst, for meeting and looking at ...

Lord Ashton of Hyde | 779 cc361-2 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Grantchester, for explaining his amendment, which seeks to...

Lord Ashton of Hyde | 779 c362 (Link to this contribution)

Moved by

Lord Ashton of Hyde

7: Schedule 1, page 108, line 33, leave out “90(2)(b)” a...

Lord Ashton of Hyde | 779 c362 (Link to this contribution)

Moved by

Lord Ashton of Hyde

15: Schedule 1, page 160, line 22, after “Commissioners”...

Lord Stevenson of Balmacara | 779 c363 (Link to this contribution)

Moved by

Lord Stevenson of Balmacara

17: After Clause 8, insert the following new Cla...

Lord Stevenson of Balmacara | 779 cc363-5 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, we return to an issue which we discussed in Committee. At that time my proposed amendme...

Lord Maxton | 779 c365 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I shall be brief. I have in my pocket a mobile phone owned by Virgin Media. Virgin Medi...

Lord Fox | 779 c365 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I am fortunate to follow the noble Lord, Lord Stevenson, whose comprehensive support of...

Lord Ashton of Hyde | 779 cc365-6 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have spoken on this technical but important subject. The in...

Lord Stevenson of Balmacara | 779 cc366-7 (Link to this contribution)

I gather that the right way to respond is to say that I am obliged to the Minister for his respon...

Baroness Buscombe | 779 cc367-8 (Link to this contribution)

Moved by

Baroness Buscombe

19: Before Clause 28, insert the following new Clause—

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Baroness Buscombe | 779 c368 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, Amendment 19 fulfils a manifesto commitment to enhance the public lending right by exte...

Earl of Clancarty | 779 cc368-9 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I take this opportunity to congratulate the Government on introducing this amendment, f...

Lord Clement-Jones | 779 c369 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I add my voice to the thanks offered to the Minister by the noble Earl, Lord Clancarty,...

Lord Maxton | 779 c369 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I too welcome the amendment; it is well worth while, but it is worth making a point I m...

Lord Stevenson of Balmacara | 779 c369 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, we welcome the Government’s tabling their amendment on this issue, as promised. In Comm...

Baroness Buscombe | 779 cc369-370 (Link to this contribution)

I thank all noble Lords who have spoken in this short debate. I shall refer to Amendment 23, tabl...

Lord Stevenson of Balmacara | 779 c370 (Link to this contribution)

Moved by

Lord Stevenson of Balmacara

20: Clause 28, page 29, line 23, at end insert—<...

Lord Stevenson of Balmacara | 779 cc370-2 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, when this matter appeared in Committee during our discussions on the intellectual prope...

Lord Clement-Jones | 779 c372 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, there is equal enthusiasm on these Benches for this amendment. The noble Lord, Lord Ste...

Baroness Kidron | 779 c372 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I want to reiterate a point I made in Committee about the context in which young people...

Lord Inglewood | 779 cc372-3 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I understand that the extent of what is happening is such that it is a genuine mischief...

Baroness Buscombe | 779 cc373-4 (Link to this contribution)

I thank all noble Lords who have taken part in this important debate on an issue that we take ext...

Lord Stevenson of Balmacara | 779 c374 (Link to this contribution)

Before the noble Baroness sits down, could I just tease out what she has just said? Could that be...

Baroness Buscombe | 779 c374 (Link to this contribution)

I cannot make a commitment that we will bring this back at Third Reading. We would certainly thin...

Lord Stevenson of Balmacara | 779 c374 (Link to this contribution)

I thank the Minister for her comments. I am sorry she is not minded to use the opportunity afford...

Lord Clement-Jones | 779 c374 (Link to this contribution)

Moved by

Lord Clement-Jones

21: Clause 30, page 29, line 38, at beginning insert—

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Lord Clement-Jones | 779 c377 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I hope this will be a short debate. I was pleased to see the Government’s response to t...

Viscount Colville of Culross | 779 c377 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I voice my admiration for the noble Lord, Lord Clement-Jones, and his dogged determinat...

Baroness Buscombe | 779 cc377-8 (Link to this contribution)

In Committee, and again here today, noble Lords have expressed their desire to see a swift repeal...

Lord Clement-Jones | 779 cc378-9 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I thank the Minister for the first half of her reply. She repeated pretty much what was...

Lord Clement-Jones | 779 c379 (Link to this contribution)

Moved by

Lord Clement-Jones

24: After Clause 30, insert the following new Clause—

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Lord Clement-Jones | 779 cc379-380 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, in Committee I explained the importance to authors and other creators of transparency, ...

Earl of Clancarty | 779 c380 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I support the amendment of the noble Lord, Lord Clement-Jones. He talked about the prin...

Baroness Jones of Whitchurch | 779 cc380-1 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Clement-Jones, for raising this again today. As b...

Baroness Buscombe | 779 cc381-2 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have taken part in this debate on Amendment 24, tabled by t...

Lord Clement-Jones | 779 c382 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I congratulate the noble Baroness, Lady Buscombe, on finding a new argument at the end;...

Lord Stevenson of Balmacara | 779 c383 (Link to this contribution)

Moved by

Lord Stevenson of Balmacara

25: After Clause 30, insert the following new Cl...

Lord Stevenson of Balmacara | 779 cc383-4 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I move Amendment 25 and am grateful for the support of my noble friend Lady Jones and t...

Lord Foster of Bath | 779 cc384-5 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I am delighted to support the amendment in the names of the noble Lord, Lord Stevenson,...

Baroness Buscombe | 779 cc385-6 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, Amendment 25 returns to the topic of search engines and copyright and would give the Go...

Lord Stevenson of Balmacara | 779 c386 (Link to this contribution)

Although I am grateful to the Minister for her robust comments about our amendment, I profoundly ...

Baroness Janke | 779 c387 (Link to this contribution)

Moved by

Baroness Janke

25A: After Clause 30, insert the following new Clause—

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Baroness Janke | 779 c387 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I have resubmitted this amendment because we consider this to be a matter of concern. A...

Lord Ashton of Hyde | 779 cc387-8 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Baroness for waiting patiently for the last group of amendme...

Baroness Janke | 779 c388 (Link to this contribution)

I thank the noble Lord for his response. Certainly, his comment that electrical products are spec...

Lord Ashton of Hyde | 779 c388 (Link to this contribution)

I am certainly happy to do that. I have a note on counterfeit electricals that I cannot read, so ...

Baroness Janke | 779 c388 (Link to this contribution)

I thank the noble Lord. I beg leave to withdraw the amendment.

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