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Online Safety Bill

Debate on bills on Monday, 10 July 2023, in the House of Lords, led by Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay. The answering members were Lord Stevenson of Balmacara and Lord Knight of Weymouth.
Lords report stage second day. Amendment 34 agreed to. Amendment 35 agreed to on division (240 to 168). Amendments 36 to 38, 41, 42, 44, 45, 47 to 53, 57, 60 to 62, 65 to 76, 82 and 83 agreed to. (Part 1 of 2).
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Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
831 cc1529-1599 
Session
2022-23
Legislative stage
Report stage
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
Online Safety Bill. Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform Committee twenty-eighth report.
Wednesday, 1 March 2023
Parliamentary committees
House of Lords
Online Safety Bill. Constitution Committee fifteenth report
Wednesday, 15 March 2023
Parliamentary committees
House of Lords
Online Safety Bill 2021-22 to 2022-23. As amended in Committee.
Thursday, 22 June 2023
Bills
House of Lords
Online Safety Bill: Government response. Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform Committee thirty-eighth report.
Monday, 3 July 2023
Parliamentary committees
House of Lords

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Online Safety Bill
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Deposited Paper DEP2023-0714
Monday, 4 September 2023
Deposited papers
House of Lords
Proceeding contributions
Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay | 831 c1529 (Link to this contribution)

We began this group on the previous day on Report, and I concluded my remarks, so it is now for o...

Lord Bethell | 831 cc1529-1532 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I rise emphatically to welcome the government amendments in this group. They are a thou...


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Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick | 831 cc1530-3 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I reiterate what the noble Lord, Lord Bethell, has said and thank him for our various d...

Baroness Kidron | 831 cc1533-5 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I welcome the government amendments in this group, which set out the important role tha...

Lord Allan of Hallam | 831 cc1535-7 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I shall follow on directly from some of the comments of the noble Baroness, Lady Kidron...

Baroness Kidron | 831 c1537 (Link to this contribution)

Just to be clear, I say that the purpose of my question to the Minister was to get at the fact th...

Lord Allan of Hallam | 831 cc1537-8 (Link to this contribution)

I agree; that is very helpful. I think Amendments 74, 93 and 99 also talk about the exclusion, as...

Lord Farmer | 831 cc1538-1540 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I thank the Minister for engaging with the amendment in my name and that of the noble B...

Baroness Fox of Buckley | 831 c1540 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I rise to speak to Amendment 184 in my name—

Lord Harlech | 831 c1540 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, the guidance in the Companion states that Peers who were not present for the opening of...

Lord Clement-Jones | 831 cc1540-1 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, that neatly brings me to the beginning of my own speech. I have expressed to the Chief ...

Lord Stevenson of Balmacara | 831 cc1542-3 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, this has been a good debate, perhaps unfairly curtailed in terms of the range of voices...

Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay | 831 cc1543-5 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I am sorry that the noble Baroness, Lady Benjamin, was unable to be here for the start ...

Lord Clement-Jones | 831 c1545 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I apologise to the Minister. Can he write giving chapter and verse for that particular ...

Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay | 831 cc1545-6 (Link to this contribution)

I am very happy to do that. That would probably be better than me trying to do so at length from ...

Lord Allan of Hallam | 831 c1546 (Link to this contribution)

I just realised I forgot to thank the Government for Amendment 271, which reflected something I r...

Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay | 831 c1546 (Link to this contribution)

I appreciate the noble Lord’s interjection and, indeed, his engagement on this issue, which has i...

Baroness Kidron | 831 c1546 (Link to this contribution)

Moved by

Baroness Kidron

35: Clause 10, page 9, line 37, at end insert—

“(iv) f...

Baroness Kidron | 831 cc1546-9 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I rise to speak to all the amendments in this group. It is a cause of great regret that...

Baroness Harding of Winscombe | 831 cc1548-1550 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, as so often in the course of the Bill, I associate myself wholeheartedly with the comme...

Bishop of Oxford | 831 cc1550-1 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, as often, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Baronesses, Lady Harding and Lady Kidron...

Lord Russell of Liverpool | 831 cc1551-3 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I will speak, in part, to two amendments with my name on them and which my noble friend...

Baroness Benjamin | 831 c1553 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I rise to support the amendments in the names of the intrepid noble Baroness, Lady Kidr...

Viscount Colville of Culross | 831 cc1553-4 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, it is a great pleasure to follow the veteran campaigner on this issue, the noble Barone...

Lord Bethell | 831 cc1554-5 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I also support the amendments from the noble Baroness, Lady Kidron. It is relatively ea...

Baroness Morgan of Cotes | 831 cc1555-6 (Link to this contribution)

I rise briefly to speak to this group of amendments. I want to pick up where my noble friend Lord...

Lord Clement-Jones | 831 cc1556-7 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I very strongly support the noble Baroness, Lady Kidron, in her Amendments 35, 36 and 2...

Lord Stevenson of Balmacara | 831 cc1557-9 (Link to this contribution)

There is always a simple question. We are in a bit of a mess—again. When I said at Second Reading...

Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay | 831 cc1559-1562 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I am very grateful for the discussion we have had today and the parallel discussions th...

Baroness Kidron | 831 c1560 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I thank everybody who has spoken for these amendments. I also thank the Minister for ou...

Baroness Kidron | 831 c1560 (Link to this contribution)

Moved by

Baroness Kidron

36: Clause 11, page 10, line 38, at end insert—

“(c) m...

Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay | 831 c1560 (Link to this contribution)

Moved by

Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay

37: Clause 11, page 10, line 42, leave out “(f...

Baroness Kidron | 831 c1566 (Link to this contribution)

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Baroness Kidron

37A: Clause 11, page 10, line 46, at end insert—

“(c) ...

Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay | 831 c1566 (Link to this contribution)

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Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay

38: Clause 11, page 10, line 46, at end insert...

Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay | 831 c1566 (Link to this contribution)

I beg to move.

Amendment 39 (to Amendment 38)

Lord Bethell | 831 c1566 (Link to this contribution)

Moved by

Lord Bethell

39: Clause 11, at end insert—

“(3D) If the duty in subsec...

Lord Bethell | 831 cc1566-7 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I commend the Minister for the great strides forward which have been made since Committ...

Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick | 831 c1568 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, the final issue I raised in Committee is dealt with in this group on so-called proporti...

Lord Russell of Liverpool | 831 cc1568-9 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I will briefly address Amendments 43 and 87 in my name. I thank the noble Baronesses, L...

Lord Allan of Hallam | 831 cc1569-1570 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I follow the noble Lord, Lord Russell, particularly in talking about Amendments 43, 87 ...

Baroness Harding of Winscombe | 831 c1571 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, as somebody who is only five feet and two inches, I have felt that size does not matter...

Baroness Kidron | 831 cc1571-2 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I have to admit that it was incompetence rather than lack of will that meant I did not ...

Lord Clement-Jones | 831 cc1572-3 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I agree with the noble Baroness, Lady Kidron, that all these amendments are very much h...

Lord Knight of Weymouth | 831 cc1573-4 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, as we have heard, this is a small group of amendments concerned with preventing size an...

Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay | 831 cc1574-5 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, short debates can be helpful and useful. I am grateful to noble Lords who have spoken o...

Lord Bethell | 831 c1575 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I thank my noble friend the Minister for that reassurance. He put the points extremely ...

Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay | 831 c1576 (Link to this contribution)

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Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay

41: Clause 11, page 11, line 1, leave out from...

Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay | 831 c1576 (Link to this contribution)

Moved by

Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay

44: Clause 11, page 12, line 12, leave out “th...

Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay | 831 cc1576-7 (Link to this contribution)

Moved by

Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay

47: Clause 11, page 12, line 21, leave out “su...

Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay | 831 cc1577-8 (Link to this contribution)

Moved by

Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay

53: After Clause 11, insert the following new ...

Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay | 831 c1578 (Link to this contribution)

Moved by

Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay

57: Clause 12, page 13, line 9, after “(2)” in...

Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay | 831 cc1578-9 (Link to this contribution)

Moved by

Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay

60: Clause 12, page 13, line 10, at end insert...

Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay | 831 cc1579-1580 (Link to this contribution)

Moved by

Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay

65: Clause 12, page 13, line 24, leave out “su...

Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay | 831 c1580 (Link to this contribution)

Moved by

Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay

74: Clause 16, page 19, line 26, leave out fro...

Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay | 831 c1580 (Link to this contribution)

Moved by

Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay

75: Clause 17, page 21, line 2, leave out “11(...

Baroness Fox of Buckley | 831 c1580 (Link to this contribution)

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Baroness Fox of Buckley

77: Clause 18, page 21, line 30, after “implementing...

Baroness Fox of Buckley | 831 cc1581-4 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I am rather disappointed that, while this is a large group on freedom of expression, it...

Lord Moylan | 831 cc1583-6 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, my noble friend on the Front Bench said at various points when we were in Committee tha...

Lord Hope of Craighead | 831 cc1587-8 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I speak to Amendments 286 and 294, which are the last two amendments in this group, and...

Lord Allan of Hallam | 831 cc1588-9 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I want to respond to some of the comments made by the noble Baroness, Lady Fox, and the...

Lord Moylan | 831 c1589 (Link to this contribution)

I understand the point the noble Lord is making but, if he were thrown out, sacked or treated in ...

Lord Allan of Hallam | 831 cc1589-1590 (Link to this contribution)

That point is well made. In support of that, if the public space treated me in a discriminatory w...

Baroness Stowell of Beeston | 831 cc1590-2 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I have said several times when we have been debating this Bill—and I will probably say ...

Baroness Kidron | 831 c1592 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I rise briefly to note that, in the exchange between the noble Lords, Lord Allan and Lo...

Lord Clement-Jones | 831 cc1592-3 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, we are dangerously on the same page this evening. I absolutely agree with the noble Bar...

Lord Stevenson of Balmacara | 831 cc1593-4 (Link to this contribution)

It is always nice to be nice to the Minister.

I will reference, briefly, the introduction o...

Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay | 831 cc1594-7 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I hope that the noble Baroness, Lady Fox, and my noble friend Lord Moylan do feel that ...

Lord Moylan | 831 c1596 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, before my noble friend sits down, perhaps I could seek a point of clarification. I thin...

Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay | 831 c1596 (Link to this contribution)

As I set out, I think my noble friend and the noble Baroness, Lady Fox, are not right to point to...

Lord Allan of Hallam | 831 c1596 (Link to this contribution)

On that point specifically, having worked inside one of the companies, they fear legal action und...

Baroness Fox of Buckley | 831 cc1596-8 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I genuinely appreciate this debate. The noble Lord, Lord Clement-Jones, made what I tho...

Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay | 831 c1599 (Link to this contribution)

Moved by

Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay

82: Clause 19, page 23, line 30, at end insert...

Notes
Scottish and Welsh legislative consent granted.
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