Online Safety Bill

My Lords, as we enter the final stages of consideration of this Bill, it is a good time to focus ...

My Lords, Amendments 29 and 30 stand in my name. I fully appreciated, as I prepared my thoughts a...

My Lords, I will speak to my Amendments 281 to 281B. I thank the noble Baronesses, Lady Harding a...

My Lords, I rise briefly to support many of the amendments in this group. I will start with Amend...

My Lords, there is a danger of unanimity breaking out. The noble Lord, Lord Moylan, and I are not...

My Lords, I also speak in support of Amendments to 281, 281A and 281B, to which I have added my n...

My Lords, I broadly support all the amendments in this group but I will focus on the three amendm...

My Lords, I start by saying amen—not to the right reverend Prelate but to my noble friend Lady Ha...

My Lords, this has been a very interesting debate, as it is a real contrast. We have one set of a...

My Lords, much like the noble Lord, Lord Clement-Jones, I started off being quite certain I knew ...

I am grateful to noble Lords for their contributions during this debate. I am sympathetic to argu...

I—

I would just like to finish my thought on Wikipedia. Noble Lords are right to mention it and to h...

I am computing the various pieces of information that have just been given, and I hope the Minist...

The Secretary of State could create further exemptions but would have to bring those before Parli...

My Lords, I will keep pressing this point because it is quite important, particularly in the cont...

To follow on from that, we are talking about the obligation to bring exemptions to Parliament. We...

I may as well intervene now as well, so that the Minister can get a good run at this. I too am co...

I do not think that it is, but it will be helpful to have a debate on categorisation later on Rep...

My Lords, surely it is the role of the regulators to look at functionalities of this kind. The Mi...

Perhaps I was not as clear as I could or should have been. The regulator will set out in guidance...

But these functionalities are a part of their business model, are they not?

Hence Ofcom will make the assessments about categorisation based on that. Maybe I am missing the ...

I think we may need further discussions on the amendment from the noble Lord, Lord Russell.

I will check what I said but I hope that I have set out why we have taken the approach that we ha...

My Lords, that was a very useful debate. I appreciate the Minister’s response and his “yes, no, m...

Moved by

Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay

31: Clause 5, page 4, line 40, leave out “sect...

My Lords, the government amendments in this group relate to the categories of primary priority an...

My Lords, we spent a lot of time in Committee raising concerns about how pornography and age veri...

My Lords, I think the noble Baroness’s comments relate to the next group of amendments, on pornog...

I thank the Minister for that. In conclusion, I hope he will reflect on those issues and come bac...

My Lords, I shall speak briefly to Amendment 174 in my name and then more broadly to this group—I...

My Lords, I have a comment about Amendment 174 in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady Kidron. I ...

My Lords, interestingly, because I have not discussed this at all with the noble Lord, Lord Moyla...

My Lords, I am not entirely sure how to begin, but I will try to make the points I was going to m...

My Lords, I too welcome these amendments and thank the Minister and the Government for tabling th...

My Lords, Amendment 172 is exceptionally helpful in putting the priority harms for children on th...

I just have a question for the noble Lord. He has given an excellent exposé of the other things t...

On the noble Baroness’s point, that is why I intervened in the debate: so that we are all clear. ...

My Lords, our debate on this group is on the topic of priority harms to children. It is not one t...

My Lords, I will speak briefly as I know that we are waiting for a Statement.

If you talk t...

I shall be brief, my Lords, because I know we have a Statement to follow. It is a pleasure to fol...

My Lords, like the noble Baroness, Lady Harding, I want to make it very clear that I think the Ho...

My Lords, this has been a useful debate. As the noble Baroness, Lady Kidron, says, because I spok...

To be clear, the point that I made about the BBFC was not to suggest a similar arrangement but to...

I certainly will think about it, but the difficulty is the scale of the material and the speed wi...

I clarify that what I said was aimed at protecting children. Somebody corrected me and asked, “Do...

I take this opportunity to ask my noble friend the Minister a question; I want some clarity about...

As was pointed out by others in the debate, the key provision in Amendment 172 is subsection (2) ...

I will keep this short, because I know that everyone wants to get on. It would be said that it is...

My noble friend seemed to confirm what I said. If I wish to be abusive—in fact, I do wish to be a...

Does my noble friend wish to do that and direct it at children?

With respect, it does not say “directed at children”. Of course, I am safe in expressing that abu...

I will leap to the Minister’s defence on this occasion. I remind noble colleagues that this is no...

My Lords, these words have obviously appeared in the Bill in one of those unverified sections; I ...

May I attempt to assist the Minister? This is the “amber” point described by the noble Lord, Lord...

My Lords, we may be slipping back into a Committee-style conversation. My noble friend Lord Moyla...