Online Safety Bill

My Lords, I will speak to the amendments in this group in my name: Amendments 139, 140, 144 and 1...

My Lords, I realise that I am something of a fish out of water in this House, as I was in Committ...

My Lords, the codes of practice are among the most important documents that Ofcom will produce as...

My Lords, not for the first time I find myself in quite a different place from my noble friend Lo...

My Lords—

Perhaps the noble Lord will allow me to make my point. I really welcome the government amendments...

My Lords, I want to congratulate the noble Baroness, Lady Stowell, on her amendments and to raise...

My Lords, a lot of positive and interesting things have been said that I am sympathetic to, but t...

My Lords, I too express my admiration to the noble Baroness, Lady Stowell, for her work on this g...

My Lords, this has been a consistent theme ever since the Joint Committee’s report. It was report...

My Lords, first, I have to say that, having read Hansard from last Thursday, I feel I should have...

My Lords, this is indeed an apposite day to be discussing ongoing ping-pong. I am very happy to s...

Can the Minister confirm that the fact that a direction has been made will always be known to the...

Yes; that is right.

I hope noble Lords will agree that the changes we have made and that I ...

I am grateful to my noble friend for his constructive response to my Amendments 139 and 140. I am...

I am certainly happy to commit to showing my noble friend the tidying up we think necessary of th...

My Lords, the key question is this: why have these powers over social media when the Secretary of...

If I may, I will write to the noble Lord having reflected on that question further. We are talkin...

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Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay

131: Clause 38, page 41, line 4, leave out “Th...

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Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay

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Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay

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I beg to move.

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Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay

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Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay

146: Clause 40, page 42, line 34, leave out “(...

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Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay

149: Clause 47, page 48, line 11, at end inser...

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Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay

151: Clause 48, page 48, line 33, leave out “1...

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Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay

152: After Clause 48, insert the following new...

My Lords, as we discussed in Committee, the Bill contains strong protection for women and girls a...

My Lords, I will speak very briefly to this amendment; I know that the House is keen to get on to...

My Lords, I know that we do not have long and I do not want to be churlish. I am not that keen on...

My Lords, I rise briefly to support the noble Baroness, Lady Morgan, to welcome the government am...

My Lords, on behalf of my party, all the groups mentioned by the noble Baroness, Lady Morgan, and...

My Lords, this very positive government amendment acknowledges that there is not equality when it...

I am very grateful to everyone for the support they have expressed for this amendment both in the...

The Minister did not quite grasp what I said but I will not keep the House. Would he be prepared ...

I am sorry—yes, the noble Baroness made a further point on consultation. I want to reassure her a...

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Lord Clement-Jones

152A: Clause 49, page 49, line 22, at end insert “includi...

My Lords, we had a pretty extensive future-proofing debate in Committee, which I was sadly unable...

My Lords, I am most grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Clement-Jones, for tabling the amendment. If...

My Lords, I am interested to hear what the Minister says, but could he also explain to the House ...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Clement-Jones, for raising this; it is important....

I will begin with that. The metaverse is in scope of the Bill, which, as noble Lords know, has be...

My Lords, I hope I am not interrupting the Minister in full flow. He has talked about users entir...

We talked about bots controlled by service providers before the noble Lord, Lord Knight, asked qu...

I thank the noble Lord for giving way. The Minister just said that private providers will be resp...

I will write to noble Lords with further information and will make sure that I have picked up cor...

I thank the Minister. I feel that we have been slightly unfair because we have been asking questi...

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Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay

153: Clause 49, page 49, line 27, after “bot” ...

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Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay

158: Clause 49, page 50, line 17, leave out su...

My Lords, as noble Lords know, His Majesty’s Government are committed to defending the invaluable...

My Lords, Amendments 159 and 160 are in my name and those of the noble Lord, Lord McNally, and th...

My Lords, my name is also to this amendment. I am moved by a phrase used by the noble Lord, Lord ...

My Lords, I have been a journalist my whole career and I have great respect for the noble Lords w...

My Lords, I am very pleased to say a few words, because I do not want to disappoint my good frien...

My Lords, I declare my interest—although I think it has already been declared for me by the noble...

Does the noble Lord agree that a report which gives as part of its evidence conversations with a ...

The report must be read as a whole. I do not accept at all what the noble Lord has said. It is wo...

My Lords, I want to bring the tone of the debate down somewhat to talk about government Amendment...

My Lords, I am completely opposed to Amendments 159 and 160, but the noble Lords, Lord Faulks and...

My Lords, I shall speak very briefly. I feel a responsibility to speak, having spoken in Committe...

My Lords, we have heard some very well-rehearsed lines during the debate today, with the usual pr...

My Lords, I was unfortunately unable to attend round 1 of this debate—I had to leave. My noble fr...

As I opened up that question, just to be clear, I was saying that it is exactly right that an ind...

I hope they do not, and I think the Minister has to answer that question quite directly. The issu...

I reassure the noble Lord, Lord Stevenson, that he was right to sign the amendments; I am gratefu...

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Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay

161: Clause 51, page 52, line 14, leave out su...

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Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay

163: Clause 54, page 54, line 44, leave out “a...

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Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay

171: After Clause 54, insert the following new...

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Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay

172: After Clause 54, insert the following new...

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Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay

175: Clause 55, leave out Clause 55

Memb...

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Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay

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Baroness Merron

180: After Clause 56, insert the following new Clause—