Online Safety Bill

My Lords, I shall speak to my Amendment 275A in this group. It would place a duty on Ofcom to rep...

My Lords, I will speak to Amendment 191A in my name. I also support Amendment 186A in the name of...

My Lords, I will make some arguments in favour of Amendment 191A, in the name of the noble Barone...

Does the noble Lord accept that that is already a possibility? You can bring an action in contrac...

I am certainly aware that it is there but, again, the noble Lord has just made the point himself:...

My Lords, I will speak briefly on a couple of amendments and pick up from where the noble Lord, L...

My Lords, even by previous standards, this is the most miscellaneous of miscellaneous groups. We ...

My Lords, as others have said, this has been a very interesting tour d’horizon of some of the poi...

My wife, who is chairman of a number of things, objects to “chair” as “furniturism”. She likes to...

I respect the noble Lord’s point. I did not make a specific proposal; I simply asked why the Bill...

My Lords, let me add to this miscellany by speaking to the government amendments that stand in my...

I understand the report on a specific death, which is very welcome and part of the regime as we a...

We are keen to ensure that coroners have access to the information and expertise that they need, ...

My Lords, the Minister has not stated that there is a duty to collaborate. Is he saying that that...

Yes, there is a duty, and the law should be followed. I am not sure whether the noble Lord is sug...

Is there a duty to collaborate between regulators?

I am not sure that I follow the noble Lord’s question, but perhaps—

My Lords, the Minister is saying that, in practice, there is a kind of collaboration between regu...

If I may, I will write to the noble Lord setting that out; he has lost me with his question. We b...

I am most grateful to the Minister; perhaps I could just check something he said. There was a gre...

I am happy to provide further detail in writing and to reiterate the points I have made as it is ...

Will the Minister copy other Members in?

Yes.

My Lords, this has indeed been a wide-ranging and miscellaneous debate. I hope that since we are ...

Moved by

Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay

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My Lords, transparency and accountability are at the heart of the regulatory framework that the B...

My Lords, Amendment 247B in my name was triggered by government Amendment 247A, which the Ministe...

My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Allan of Hallam, hinted at the fact that there have been a plethor...

My Lords, the business of the internet is data. Whether it is a retail business, a media business...

My Lords, Amendments 270 and 272 are in my name; I thank the noble Lord, Lord Stevenson of Balmac...

My Lords, I think that was a very good speech from the noble Baroness, partly because I signed he...

My Lords, before I talk to the amendments I had intended to address, I will make a very narrow po...

My Lords, I associate myself with my noble friend Lady Fraser of Craigmaddie’s incredibly well-ma...

My Lords, it is valuable to be able to speak immediately after my noble friend Lady Harding of Wi...

My Lords, the debate so far has been—in the words of the noble Baroness, Lady Fox—a Committee deb...

My Lords, I just want to reinforce what my noble friend Lord Bethell said about the amendments to...

My Lords, we have had an important debate on a range of amendments to the Bill. There are some ve...

My Lords, I am grateful to noble Lords for their contributions in this group. On the point made b...

I am grateful to the Minister. That was helpful, particularly the description of the process and ...

A provider would have a right to bring a legal challenge against Ofcom if it considered that a pa...

And on Schedule 12?

I will write on Schedule 12 as well.

Before the Minister sits down, to quote the way the Minister has operated throughout Report, ther...

I had not quite finished; the noble Baroness was quick to catch me before I sat down. I still hav...

I am grateful to the Minister for giving way so quickly. I think the House is asking him to indic...

I am very happy to discuss this further with noble Lords, but I will reserve the right, pending t...

I am grateful to the Minister for giving way. My premise is that the reason Ofcom reports in a na...

We think we can rely on Ofcom’s discretion, and point to its current practice. I hope that will r...

My Lords—

I was about to say that I am very happy to write to the noble Lord, Lord Stevenson, about the man...

I would be grateful if the Minister could repeat that immediately afterwards, when I will listen ...

Yes, and we can point to the current actions of Ofcom to show that it is indeed doing this alread...

The noble Baroness, Lady Harding, made the point that in other areas where the Minister has agree...

We touched on the complexity of defining who and what is a researcher and making sure that we do ...

The benefit of having a period of time between the last day of Report on Wednesday and Third Read...

Before the Minister stands up, I also wondered—

Oh!

Sit down or stand up—I cannot remember.

I wonder whether the department has looked at the D...

We do not think that six weeks is enough time for the evidence base to develop sufficiently, our ...

Just on the timescale, one of the issues that we talked about in Committee was the fact that ther...

I will continue my train of thought on my noble friend’s amendments, which I hope will cover that...

Before the Minister sits down—he has been extremely generous in taking interventions—I want to pu...

Yes, but I do not want to raise the hopes of the noble Lord or others, with whom I look forward t...

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Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay

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Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay

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Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay

191: After Clause 67, insert the following new...

I beg to move.

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Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay

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Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay

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Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay

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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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My Lords, the amendments in this group relate to provisions for media literacy in the Bill and Of...

My Lords, I welcome this proposed new clause on media literacy and support the amendments in the ...

My Lords, I want to look at how, in the Government expanding Ofcom’s duties to prioritise media l...

My Lords, I will speak to the government Amendments 274B and 274C. I truly welcome a more detaile...

My Lords, this has been a very interesting short debate. Like other noble Lords, I am very please...

I am not surprised that my noble friend refers to his experience on the Joint Committee. He will ...

My Lords, I thank my noble friend very much for that intervention.

My Lords, I remind the House that, as we are on Report, interventions on current speakers should ...

I am sure my noble friend with 30 years’ experience stands duly corrected. He has reminded us tha...

My Lords, the Government have moved on this issue, and I very much welcome that. I am grateful to...

My Lords, I am grateful to noble Lords for their comments, and for the recognition from the noble...

My Lords, could I ask the Minister a question? He has put his finger on one of the most important...

I hope what I have said about the way that Ofsted and Ofcom are working together gives the noble ...

I do not believe that the Minister has dealt with the minimum standards issue.

I do not think that the noble Lord was listening to that point, but I did.

Moved by

Lord Clement-Jones

219: Clause 158, leave out Clause 158

Member’s expl...

My Lords, Clause 158 is one of the more mysterious clauses in the Bill and it would greatly benef...

My Lords, I will add to my noble friend’s call for us to consider whether Clause 158 should be st...

My Lords, I will be very brief. The danger with Clause 158 is that it discredits media literacy a...

My Lords, I am grateful for the opportunity to set out the need for Clauses 158 and 159. The amen...

We established in our last debate that the notion of a recognised news publisher will go much bro...

On the previous group, I raised the issue of legal speech that was labelled as misinformation and...

I am happy to make it clear, as I did on the last group, that the power allows Ofcom not to requi...

While the Minister is describing that, can he explain exactly which media literacy power would be...

It depends on the circumstances. I do not want to give one example for fear of being unnecessaril...

I thank the Minister for that more extended reply. It is a more reassuring response on Clause 159...

Moved by

Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay

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Moved by

Lord Moylan

225: After Clause 161, insert the following new Clause—

“T...

My Lords, continuing the rather radical approach of debating an amendment that has already been d...

My Lords, I put my name to this very important amendment—all the more important because of the pr...

My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Moylan, and the noble Baroness, Lady Fox, have a very strong point...

My Lords, clearly, there is a limited number of speakers in this debate. We should thank the nobl...

My Lords, the Government share the view of my noble friend Lord Moylan about the importance of tr...

Before the Minister sits down, I think that it is entirely appropriate for him to say—I have hear...

I have addressed the points made by the noble Baroness and my noble friend already. She asks the ...

My Lords, I see what my noble friend did there, and it was very cunning. He gave us a very worthw...

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Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay

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Moved by

Lord Allan of Hallam

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My Lords, we are coming to some critical amendments on a very important issue relatively late in ...

My Lords, I regret I was unable to be present in Committee to deliver my speech about the chillin...

My Lords, it is all quite exciting now, is it not? I can say “hear, hear!” a lot; everyone is tal...

My Lords, I support Amendment 228. I spoke on this issue to the longer amendment in Committee. To...

My Lords, this has been a very interesting debate. Beyond peradventure my noble friend Lord Allan...

My Lords, this has been a good debate. It is very hard to see where one would want to take it. If...

My Lords, I start by saying that accurate systems and processes for content moderation are crucia...

My Lords, I remain concerned that people who use more choice words of Anglo-Saxon origin will fin...

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Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay

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Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay

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Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay

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Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay

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Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay

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My Lords, we have had some productive discussions on application stores, commonly known as “app s...

My Lords, before speaking to my Amendment 239A, I thank my noble friend the Minister, the Secreta...

My Lords, I pay tribute to the noble Baroness, Lady Harding, for her role in bringing this issue ...

My Lords, I will make a brief contribution because I was the misery guts when this was proposed f...

My Lords, I add my congratulations to the noble Baroness, Lady Harding, on her tenacity, and to t...

My Lords, I will start with the final point of the noble Lord, Lord Clement-Jones. I remind him t...

My Lords, I am very grateful for the strength of support and echo the tributes that have been pai...

Moved by

Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay

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I beg to move that further consideration on Report be adjourned and that the House be adjourned d...

My Lords, has the noble Lord, Lord Harlech, seen paragraph 3.1 of the Companion? In case he has n...

I take the noble Lord’s points on board. I think that my noble friend the Chief Whip answered tho...

I appreciate that the noble Lord is put in a difficult position, but all the Chief Whip said was ...

Perhaps this is something to discuss with my noble friend the Chief Whip while the House adjourns...