Online Safety Bill

My Lords, I draw attention to my interests in the register, which I declared in full at Second Re...

My Lords, I am pleased that we are starting our Committee debate on this amendment. It is a pleas...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow other noble Lords who have spoken. I too support this key fi...

My Lords, I too support this amendment. I was at a dinner last night in the City for a group of t...

My Lords, I welcome this opportunity to clarify the purposes of the Bill, but I am not sure that ...

My Lords, I have had a helpful reminder about declarations of interest. I once worked for Faceboo...

My Lords, I have not engaged with this amendment in any particular detail—until the last 24 hours...

My Lords, this day has not come early enough for me. I am pleased to join others on embarking on ...

My Lords, we have had a good-natured and informative opening debate, but we should keep our remar...

I thank the noble Lord. I hope that the amendments I support will be supported by CEASE, Refuge a...

I strongly support my noble friend in his amendment. I clarify that, in doing so, I am occupying ...

I just want to say to the noble Baroness, Lady Fox, that we are not looking to mollycoddle childr...

I very much agree. The core of what I want to say in supporting this amendment is that in Committ...

My Lords, the noble Baroness, Lady Harding, made possibly one of the truest statements that has e...

My Lords, I want to say something simple in support of what has already been said. If it is true ...

My Lords, first, I am relieved to hear that I am not the only thick person in this Committee, bec...

My Lords, I suggest, very briefly, that we look at this amendment in a slightly different way. Un...

My Lords, I am one of those who found the Bill extremely complicated, but I do not find this amen...

I want to explain more broadly that I am all for clarifying what the law is about and for simplic...

Of course we should not. What I am saying is that this amendment is simple. If it is in the Bill,...

My Lords, I think we need to move now to closing speeches, if that seems appropriate—

I have tried to be patient, and I will be very brief. A lot has been said about a lawyer’s paradi...

If I may, I will prevail upon the noble Lord, Lord Clement-Jones, to wait just another few second...

My Lords, just before the noble Lord, Lord Clement-Jones gets to wind up, I wanted to ask a quest...

My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness. I hope I have not appeared to rush the proceedings, but I a...

I was just refreshing myself on what the impact assessment says. It says that the cost of reading...

I thank my noble friend for having the impact assessment so close to hand; that is absolutely cor...

My Lords, let me start by saying how saying how pleased I, too, am that we are now in Committee. ...

Well, my Lords, it has been a very good debate, and we should be grateful for that. In some sense...