Digital Economy Bill

My Lords, I was wondering which of us would go first, so I apologise to the House for being a lit...

My Lords, I am very pleased to hear the Minister say that the remit of the IWF is to be extended ...

My Lords, it seems odd in a society such as ours that we are even thinking about how to give acce...

My Lords, I spoke on the subject of prohibited material in Committee and I rise to do so again. I...

My Lords, I make the same point I made in Committee, which is that offline and online should be a...

My Lords, I rise to support Amendment 25YD. I find myself very surprised by Amendments 25H, 25W a...

I support Amendment 25YD in the name of my noble and learned friend, to which she spoke so well e...

My Lords, my name has been mentioned in connection with something that I said on this issue. I ha...

My Lords, I find myself very much in the same school as the right reverend Prelate in not underst...

My Lords, would it help the noble Baroness if I mentioned that later in the debate we will be tal...

It certainly would. I beg the Minister’s pardon.

My Lords, I wish to speak in support of Amendment 25YD, tabled in the name of the noble and learn...

The noble Lord, Lord Farmer, is right about the huge dangers in viewing much of this pornography ...

My Lords, I cannot support the noble Earl. I follow most of his argument, but when we are conside...

My Lords, I support Amendment 25YD. In Committee I set out in detail all the reasons why I though...

My Lords, I offer my strongest support to my noble and learned friend Lady Butler-Sloss in her Am...

My Lords, I support Amendment 25YD in the name of the noble and learned Baroness, Lady Butler-Slo...

My Lords, I know we want to get to the Front-Bench speakers so I shall be very brief and, like th...

My Lords, I, too, shall be extremely brief because this matter has now been dealt with in great d...

My Lords, the debate this afternoon shows the importance of noble Lords participating in every st...

Can the noble Lord produce a shred of evidence to say that this definition has fallen into disrep...

I will try to say it again more clearly. It is the fact that the Crown Prosecution Service is not...

Why cannot the CPS just change its guidance?

Indeed. What the Minister said backed up what the noble Lord, Lord Browne of Belmont, said about ...

I made the point about the medical ramifications of certain practices. That is the point I was ma...

Forgive me if I misunderstood the noble Lord. I thought he was using that as an argument for why ...

This may assist the noble Lord and the rest of the House—

I remind noble Lords that this is Report.

Very quickly, for clarification, the problem is that some material is regulated by ATVOD, some by...

I am grateful for the noble Earl’s intervention, but for clarity I will stick to what I was sayin...

My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister for introducing his amendments today. I am also grateful ...

My Lords, this has been a wide-ranging debate and I find myself in a slightly uncomfortable posit...

The noble Lord, Lord Paddick, said that the definition of prohibited material had become somewhat...

It should not really be me answering that.

You accepted his way of putting it.

The reason is that the CPS decides whether to prosecute on offences as it sees them. It has guida...

Why?

The reason it does not is because it has discretion in individual cases. Sometimes it thinks it i...

The noble and learned Lord asked a good question. My understanding is that the definition of proh...

Moved by

Lord Ashton of Hyde

25C: Clause 15, page 18, line 11, leave out subsection (...

My Lords, these government amendments are primarily designed to address the concerns of the Deleg...

My Lords, my noble friend Lord Clement-Jones and I have Amendment 25N in this group. It is a prob...

My Lords, I want to comment on Amendment 25D and to thank the Government for proposing new subsec...

My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister for explaining the thinking behind these many amendments....

My Lords, Amendment 25N in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Paddick, seeks to remove the word “su...

I hope I am right. I think Amendment 25N is in the next group.

I am sorry, that has rather thrown me. I was saying that I was surprised by the noble Baroness. W...

I specifically asked about the ability to impose fines and so on. That appears to be under a nega...

We have not designated the financial regulator. We will have to do that. I will check if it is un...

Moved by

Lord Ashton of Hyde

25D: Clause 15, page 18, line 16, at end insert—

“...

Moved by

Lord Ashton of Hyde

25G: Clause 16, page 18, line 38, before “means” insert ...

Moved by

Baroness Jones of Whitchurch

25J: Clause 17, page 19, line 47, leave out “ma...

My Lords, in moving Amendment 25J I shall speak also to Amendments 25K and 25P. They tackle three...

My Lords, I shared some of the concerns that the noble Baroness has just articulated about the ro...

My Lords, this is an important point. Without enforcement, nothing will work. If you do not enfor...

My Lords, I am grateful to everyone who has spoken in this brief debate. The introduction of a ne...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lords who contributed to the debate. Of course I accept that...

Moved by

Lord Ashton of Hyde

25L: Clause 17, page 19, line 48, leave out “this Part” ...

Moved by

Lord Ashton of Hyde

25M: Clause 17, page 20, line 8, leave out from “that” t...

Moved by

Baroness Jones of Whitchurch

25P: Clause 17, page 20, line 27, at end insert...

My Lords, for the reasons that I have just outlined, I wish to test the opinion of the House on t...

Moved by

Lord Ashton of Hyde

25Q: Clause 18, page 20, line 29, leave out subsection (...

Moved by

Lord Ashton of Hyde

25T: Clause 21, page 23, line 24, at end insert—

“...

Moved by

Lord Ashton of Hyde

25U: Clause 22, page 23, line 44, leave out “prohibited”...

Moved by

Lord Ashton of Hyde

25YC: After Clause 22, insert the following new Clause—<...

Moved by

Baroness Butler-Sloss

25YD: After Clause 22, insert the following new Clause...

My Lords, I shall make a few points, although this was discussed in rather greater detail a littl...

Moved by

Lord Ashton of Hyde

25YE: Clause 23, page 25, line 6, leave out “prohibited”...

Moved by

Lord Ashton of Hyde

25YM: After Clause 24, insert the following new Clause—<...

Moved by

Lord Paddick

25YN: After Clause 24, insert the following new Clause—

“...

My Lords, Amendment 25YN is in my name and that of my noble friend Lord Clement-Jones. This is a ...

My Lords, I will say a few words on this very quickly. I thoroughly approve of the premise of the...

My Lords, I echo many of the concerns raised by the noble Lord, Lord Paddick. We added our name t...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Paddick, and the noble Baroness, Lady Jones, and I thank t...

Could I invite the Minister to be slightly less gentle with those supporting this amendment by sa...

I had not thought of that. I am absolutely sure that that was not the intention. However, in the ...

My Lords, I thank in particular the noble Earl, Lord Erroll, for his support on this amendment an...

Moved by

Baroness Buscombe

25YP: Clause 25, page 27, line 7, leave out “prohibited” a...

Moved by

Baroness Buscombe

25YQ: After Clause 25, insert the following new Clause—