Online Safety Bill

Moved by

Baroness Merron

2: Before Clause 1, in subsection (2)(a), after “characteris...

My Lords, I would like to start on a positive note by thanking the Minister for responding to the...

My Lords, I will speak to Amendment 1, to which I was happy to add my name alongside that of the ...

My Lords, I too thank my noble friend the Minister for tabling Amendment 1, to which I add my sup...

My Lords, I too support the Minister’s Amendment 1. I remember vividly, at the end of Second Read...

My Lords, I am grateful to my noble friend the Minister for the meeting that he arranged with me ...

My Lords, needless to say, I disagree with what the noble Lord, Lord Moylan, has just been saying...

My Lords, this has indeed set us on a good course, and I am grateful to noble Lords for their que...

My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister for his response. It is a very practical response and cer...

Moved by

Lord Garnier

2A: Clause 162, page 141, line 32, after “psychological” insert...

My Lords, I shall speak briefly to Amendments 2A, 2B and 5A, which are in my name but perhaps mor...

My Lords, I will speak to Amendment 5B in my name and that of my noble friend Lord Clement-Jones....

My Lords, I support all the amendments in this group. However, what I have to say on my own amend...

My Lords, Amendments 3 to 5 to Clause 164 are in my name. They relate to a matter that I raised i...

My Lords, first, I welcome the amendment from the noble Lord, Lord Allan, and his motivation, bec...

My Lords, I will speak briefly to Amendments 5C and 7A in this group. I welcome the Government’s ...

My Lords, I understand that, as this is a new stage of the Bill, I have to declare my interests: ...

Hear, hear!

My comments will be rather shorter. I want to make a detailed comment about Amendment 5B, which I...

My working assumption would be that that would be contestable. If somebody claimed the peer suppo...

I also want to support the noble Baroness, Lady Kennedy. The level of abuse to women online and t...

My Lords, I too must declare my interests on the register—I think that is the quickest way of doi...

My Lords, this has been an interesting debate that in a curious way moves us from the debate on t...

I am grateful to my noble friends Lady Buscombe and Lord Leicester and my noble and learned frien...

I appreciate the Minister’s response. Could he also respond to my suggestion that it would be hel...

I am very happy to make that commitment. It would be useful to have their continued engagement, a...

I am very grateful for the Minister’s comments. This is the crux of my confusion: I am not entire...

If a defendant said that he—usually he—had sent an image believing that the consent of the recipi...

My Lords, we are coming to this in the next group, but that is a consent-based offence, is it not...

It is—and I shall explain more in that group why we take that approach. But the offence of cyberf...

I am sure that the noble and learned Lord, Lord Garnier, is going to come in, and he knows a grea...

Perhaps I can respond to the point about intimate abuse when we come on to the next group—that mi...

It might be helpful—except for the refusal to accept my noble friend’s amendment.

If the defendant said that they had sent an image because they thought that consent had been obta...

My Lords, I do not want to interfere in private grief, but the courts have powers to protect witn...

There are indeed but, as my noble and learned friend’s interjection makes clear, those are still ...

On the various protections already within that original amendment, if it went to court, why would...

It is about the burden on the medical professionals and the question of whether it comes to court...

Before the Minister sits down, I express my gratitude that he has indicated that my amendment wou...

My Lords, without wishing to disrupt the very good nature of this debate, I remind the House that...

None the less, I am grateful to the noble Baroness for her clarification and expansion of this po...

It is not specific to women; it is general.

The issue the noble Baroness has highlighted will protect all victims against people trying to ev...

My Lords, I will be incredibly brief because everything that needs to be said has been said at le...

Moved by

Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay

7: Clause 170, page 149, line 25, after “made”...

My Lords, I am grateful for the opportunity to continue some of the themes we touched on in the l...

My Lords, I welcome these new offences. From my professional experience, I know that what came to...

I also welcome these amendments and want to pay tribute to Maria Miller in the other place for he...

Very briefly, before I speak to these amendments, I want to welcome them. Having spoken to and in...

My Lords, I have very little to add to the wise words that we have heard from my noble friend and...

My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister for introducing this suite of government amendments. From...

I am happy to respond clearly to that. As my right honourable friend Edward Argar MP and I said i...

If the Minister has time, can he actually direct us to that, because it is important that we are ...

In the amendments, if I can, I will. In the meantime, I reassure my noble friend Lady Morgan of C...

I believe I misspoke when I asked my question. I referred to under-18s. Of course, if they are un...

If the noble Baroness misspoke, I understood what she intended. I knew what she was getting at.