Online Safety Bill

My Lords, I will speak to Amendment 157 in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Pickles, and others, ...

My Lords, I also support Amendment 157, which stands in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Pickles,...

My Lords, I agree in part with the noble Lord, Lord Moylan. I was the person who said that small ...

My Lords, I rise to speak along similar lines to the noble Baroness, Lady Kidron. I will address ...

My Lords, I will build on my noble friend’s comments. We have what I call the Andrew Tate problem...

My Lords, I did not want to interrupt the noble Lord, Lord Moylan, in full flow as he introduced ...

My Lords, I welcome this debate, which revisits some of the areas discussed in earlier debates ab...

My Lords, I must first apologise for my slightly dishevelled appearance as I managed to spill cof...

I am grateful to the Minister for that clarification. I take it then that the Government’s workin...

As I said, the largest and riskiest sites may involve some which have search functions, so the te...

My Lords, I am grateful to all noble Lords who have spoken in this debate. I hope that the noble ...

Perhaps I might briefly come in. My noble friend Lord Moylan may have helped explain why we disag...

My noble friend makes a very interesting point, and there is much to ponder in it—too much to pon...

Having listened to the Minister, I think we need clarification on the issue of duplication and wh...

When we come to Amendment 157, that will be noted.

Amendments 13A to 13C

Moved by

Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay

13A: Clause 6, page 5, line 35, after “service...

Moved by

Lord Allan of Hallam

14: Clause 6, page 5, line 38, at end insert—

“(6...

My Lords, I propose Amendment 14 on behalf of my noble friend Lord Clement-Jones and the noble Lo...

My Lords, I support Amendment 190 in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Clement-Jones, and Amendmen...

I point out that one of the benefits of end-to-end encryption is that it precisely stops companie...

I thank the noble Lord for the intervention. For those noble Lords who are not following the numb...

My Lords, my name is attached to Amendment 203 in this group, along with those of the noble Lords...

I want to take advantage of the noble Baroness having raised that point to say that perhaps I was...

I am glad I gave the noble Baroness the opportunity for that intervention. I have a reasonable le...

My Lords, I rise to speak to Amendment 205 in my name, but like other noble Lords I will speak ab...

My Lords, there have been some excellent speeches so far. The noble Lord, Lord Allan of Hallam, b...

No one in the Committee or anyone standing behind us who speaks up for children thinks that this ...

I agree with the noble Baroness, which is precisely why I am suggesting that we need to consider ...

I just want to add to the exchange between the noble Baronesses, Lady Kidron and Lady Fox. The no...

The noble Lord has concluded with my conclusion, which was to say that those services will be dri...

My Lords, that last exchange was incredibly helpful. I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Allan,...

My Lords, I was not intending to intervene on this group because my noble friend Lord Stevenson w...

My Lords, I would like to say something very quickly on VPN. I had a discussion with some teenage...

My Lords, I have long been on record as being for radical reform of the House of Lords, but I do ...

My Lords, this is the first time that I have spoken on the Bill in Committee. I know noble Lords ...

My Lords, it has been a very good debate indeed. When I first saw this grouping, my heart sank: t...

My Lords, this has indeed been a very good debate on a large group of amendments. We have benefit...

Before the Minister does so, can he give a sense of what he means by “best endeavours” for those ...

I am hesitant to give too tight a definition, because we want to remain technology neutral and ma...

While the Minister is reflecting, I note that the words “best endeavours” are always a bit of a w...

The noble Baroness’s intervention has given me an opportunity to note that I am about to say a li...

There are a lot of phrases here—best endeavour, proportionate, appropriate steps—that are rather ...

All the phrases used in the Bill are subject to the usual scrutiny through the judicial process—t...

I understand the point the Minister is making, but it is absolutely crystal clear that, whatever ...

My Lords, I want to give clear reassurance that the Bill does not require general monitoring of a...

Let the record stand clear: yes. It was the slight equivocation around how the Minister approache...

I did, and I am happy to say it again: yes.

Perhaps I might go back to an earlier point. When the Minister said the Government want to make s...

The points the noble Baroness has just made bring me neatly to what I was about to say in relatio...

Is that right? I do not need a yes or no answer. It was rhetorical; I am just trying to frame the...

Yes, I think it is right. The investigatory powers Act is a tool for law enforcement and intellig...

The investigatory powers Act includes a different form of technical notice, which is to put in pl...

I will certainly take that point away and I understand, of course, that different Acts require di...

Before my noble friend moves on, when he is reviewing that back in the office, could he also sati...

I am about to talk about the safeguards for journalists in the context of the Bill and the questi...

I want to flag that in the context of terrorist content, this is quite high risk for journalists....

I see that my noble friend Lord Murray of Blidworth has joined the Front Bench in anticipation of...

My Lords, this has been a very useful debate and serves as a good appetite builder for lunch, whi...