Online Safety Bill

My Lords, I must advise the Committee that if Amendment 230 is agreed to then I cannot call Amend...

My Lords, we are reaching the end of our Committee debates, but I am pleased that we have some ti...

My Lords, Amendments 233 and 234 from the noble Lord, Lord Knight of Weymouth, were well motivate...

My Lords, I declare an interest as a trustee of the International Centre for the Study of Radical...

My Lords, I too want to support this group of amendments, particularly Amendment 234, and will ma...

My Lords, I, too, support Amendments 233 and 234, and Amendment 233A, from the noble Lord, Lord A...

My Lords, as the noble Baroness, Lady Kidron, said, clearly, transparency is absolutely one of th...

My Lords, the Government are supportive of improving data sharing and encouraging greater collabo...

Before the Minister succeeds in disappointing us, can he clarify something for us? Once Ofcom has...

It is guidance rather than direction, but it will be done openly and transparently. Users will be...

I wonder whether the Minister has an answer to the academic community, who now see their European...

We are very aware that we are not the only jurisdiction looking at the important issues the Bill ...

I do not expect the Minister to have an answer to this today, but it will be useful to get this o...

We are watching with interest what is happening in other jurisdictions. If I can furnish the Comm...

I have a question, in that case, in respect of the jurisdictions. Why should we have weaker power...

I do not think that we do. We are doing things differently. Of course, Ofcom will be looking at a...

But surely, there is no backstop power. There is the review but there is no backstop which would ...

We will know once Ofcom has completed its research and examination of these complex issues; we wo...

Again, that would require primary legislation.

With that, if there are no further questions, I invite the noble Lord to withdraw his amendment.<...

My Lords, this was a short but important debate with some interesting exchanges at the end. The n...

Moved by

Baroness Merron

242: Before Clause 148, insert the following new Clause—

My Lords, I am pleased to speak to Amendments 242, 243 and 245, which have been tabled in the nam...

My Lords, I congratulate the noble Baroness on having elucidated this arcane set of amendments. U...

My Lords, I enter the fray with some trepidation. In a briefing, Carnegie, which we all love and ...

I thank all those who have spoken, and I very much appreciate the spirit in which the amendments ...

My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister. I will take that as a no—but a very well-considered no, ...

Moved by

Lord Clement-Jones

264A: Clause 160, page 138, line 10, at end insert “inclu...

My Lords, even by the standards of this Bill, this is a pretty diverse group of amendments. I am ...

My Lords, I shall speak to Amendments 266 and 267, to which my noble and learned friend Lord Garn...

My Lords, I wish to add to what my noble friend Lady Buscombe has just said, but I can do so a li...

My Lords, as the noble Lord, Lord Clement-Jones, said, this is a very broad group, so I hope nobl...

Does my noble friend agree with me that our courts are constantly looking into the state of mind ...

I did not say that it would be impossible for a court to do this; I said it was likely to lead to...

My Lords, I want to reflect on the comments that the noble Lord, Lord Moylan, has just put to us....

My Lords, I have two amendments in this grouping. I am afraid that I did not have time to get oth...

My Lords, I will address my remarks to government Amendment 268AZA and its consequential amendmen...

My Lords, this group relates to communications offences. I will speak in support of Amendment 265...

My Lords, as the noble Lord, Lord Clement-Jones, said in introducing this group some time ago, it...

My Lords, as the noble Baroness, Lady Bennett, said, it seems a very long time since we heard the...

My Lords, this has been a broad and mixed group of amendments. I will be moving the amendments in...

I am grateful to the Minister. I was not imagining that the formulations that I played with fulfi...

Yes, we will ensure that, in looking at this in the context of Scots law, we have the opportunity...

I am sorry to interrupt the Minister, but the Law Commission recommended that the DPP’s consent s...

The Law Commission recommended that the consent, but not the personal consent, of the Director of...

I completely accept that, yes, by requiring the regulated services to prevent access to this kind...

I will follow up in writing on that point.

Before I conclude, I will mention briefly the fu...

Just before the Minister sits down—I assume that he has finished his brief on the self-harm amend...

I will have to write on the second point to try to set that out in further detail. On the questio...

It needs to be addressed, because these very small websites already alluded to are providing some...

Some of us are slightly disappointed that my noble friend did not respond to my point on the inte...

If my noble friend will forgive me, I had better refresh my memory of what he said—it was some ti...

My Lords, I will be extremely brief. There is much to chew on in the Minister’s speech and this w...

My Lords, I now have to go through a mass of amendments that are not to be the subject of debate ...

Moved by

Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay

267A: Clause 160, page 138, line 25, leave out...

Moved by

Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay

267B: Clause 162, page 139, line 38, after “co...

Moved by

Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay

268A: Clause 164, page 142, line 30, leave out...

Moved by

Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay

268AZA: After Clause 164, insert the following...

Moved by

Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay

268B: Clause 165, page 142, line 32, leave out...

Moved by

Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay

268FA: Clause 166, page 143, line 10, leave ou...

Moved by

Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay

271A: Clause 168, page 144, line 17, after “Wa...

Moved by

Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay

271BA: Clause 169, page 144, line 25, at end i...

Moved by

Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay

271C: Schedule 14, page 231, line 33, leave ou...

Moved by

Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay

283A: Clause 171, page 145, line 43, at end in...

Moved by

Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay

284A: After Clause 176, insert the following n...

Moved by

Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay

284B: Clause 180, page 150, line 23, leave out...

Moved by

Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay

284D: Clause 181, page 150, line 29, at end in...

Land is in sight! I call Amendment 286ZA.

Amendment 286ZA

Moved by

Lord Knight of Weymouth

286ZA: After Clause 184, insert the following new Cl...

My Lords, that was a bravura performance by the noble Lord, Lord Lexden. We thank him. To those l...

Does the noble Lord agree that the fact that we did not notice his speech was generated by AI som...

The fact that I labelled it as being AI-generated helped your Lordships to understand, and the tr...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Knight, for laying out the amendment and recognise that th...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Kidron. I will try to keep my remar...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Allan. He reminded me of significant re...

My Lords, this is a real hit-and-run operation from the noble Lord, Lord Stevenson. He has put do...

I am sure that the noble Lord, Lord Stevenson of Balmacara, is smiling over a sherry somewhere ab...

My Lords, I am grateful to everyone for that interesting and quick debate. It is occasionally one...

Can the noble Lord confirm whether he generated those comments himself, or was he on his phone wh...

I do not have an invisible earpiece feeding me my lines—that was all human-generated. I beg leave...

Moved by

Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay

286A: Schedule 17, page 239, line 36, after “1...

Moved by

Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay

286B: Clause 188, page 154, line 1, after “119...

Moved by

Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay

290A: Clause 202, page 166, line 3, leave out ...

Moved by

Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay

290H: Clause 203, page 167, line 38, at end in...

Moved by

Baroness Kidron

297: Clause 207, page 170, line 13, leave out from “means” t...

My Lords, we already had a long debate on this subject earlier in Committee. In the interim, many...

My Lords, I associate these Benches with the introduction by the noble Baroness, Lady Kidron, sup...

My Lords, what more can I say than that I wish to be associated with the comments made by the nob...

I am very grateful to the noble Baroness for her amendment, which is a useful opportunity for us ...

I beg leave to withdraw the amendment.

Moved by

Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay

304A: Clause 210, page 175, line 24, leave out...

Moved by

Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay

304CA: Clause 210, page 175, line 29, leave ou...

Moved by

Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay

304E: Clause 210, page 175, line 35, leave out...