Online Safety Bill

My Lords, I am grateful to hear what the Minister has just announced. The scheme that was origina...

My Lords, I will speak briefly to Amendments 272AA and 274AA, only because at the previous stage ...

My Lords, I am mindful of the comments of the noble Lord, Lord Stevenson, to be brief. I add a no...

My Lords, I promise I will be brief. I, too, welcome what the Minister has said and the amendment...

My Lords, I declare an interest as chair of Trust Alliance Group, which operates the energy and c...

I am grateful to noble Lords for their warm support and for heeding the advice of the noble Lord,...

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Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay

237: After Clause 195, insert the following ne...

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Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay

237A: Clause 200, page 168, line 5, after “Sta...

My Lords, Amendments 238A and 238D seek to change the parliamentary process for laying—oh, I am s...

My Lords, we have not talked much about fees in our consideration of the Bill, and I will not tal...

My Lords, there is very little to add to that. These are important questions. I simply was struck...

I am looking forward to returning to arts and heritage; I will leave that to my noble friend Lady...

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Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay

237B: Clause 200, page 168, line 6, at end ins...

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Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay

237C: Clause 201, page 168, line 11, at end in...

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Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay

237E: Clause 201, page 168, line 23, at end in...

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Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay

238A: Clause 201, page 169, line 3, at end ins...

My Lords, as I was eagerly anticipating, government Amendments 238A and 238D seek to change the p...

My Lords, I shall speak to Amendment 245. I would like to thank my noble friend the Minister, and...

My Lords, I strongly support Amendment 245. The noble Baroness, Lady Morgan of Cotes, has explain...

My Lords, I am pleased to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Morgan of Coates, and her amendment, wh...

My Lords, I welcome the Minister’s Amendment 238A, which I think was in response to the DPRRC rep...

My Lords, I have good news and bad news for the Minister. The good news is that we have no proble...

My Lords, I shall explain why the simple change of one word is not as simple as it may at first s...

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Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay

238B: Clause 201, page 169, line 6, leave out ...

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Lord Stevenson of Balmacara

239: After Clause 201, insert the following new ...

My Lords, this amendment would require the Secretary of State, when seeking to exercise certain p...

I support the amendment of the noble Lord, Lord Stevenson. Here is an opportunity for the Ministe...

My Lords, I offer my support to the amendment. I spent some time arguing in the retained EU law B...

My Lords, as the noble Lords, Lord Stevenson and Lord Clement-Jones, have already said, the Commu...

My Lords, very briefly, I was pleased to see this, in whatever form it takes, because as we finis...

I associate myself with the comments of my noble friend Lady Stowell on this whole issue, and I r...

My Lords, I have always felt rather sorry for the first Viscount Addison, because what we refer t...

I am very grateful to everyone who has contributed to the debate, despite my injunction that no o...

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Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay

239B: Clause 74, page 70, line 3, leave out fr...

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Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay

239F: Clause 76, leave out Clause 76 and inser...

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Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay

239G: Clause 77, page 72, line 2, leave out fr...

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Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay

239N: Clause 79, page 73, line 18, leave out f...

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Baroness Harding of Winscombe

240: Clause 82, page 74, line 25, leave out “p...

My Lords, if I may, I shall speak very briefly, in the absence of my noble friend Lady Kidron, an...

My Lords, His Majesty’s Government indeed agree that this is consequential on the other amendment...

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Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay

241: Clause 82, page 74, line 31, leave out “o...

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Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay

243: Clause 82, page 75, line 2, leave out “or...

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Baroness Morgan of Cotes

245: Schedule 11, page 223, line 32, leave out “and...

My Lords, I wish to test the opinion of the House and I beg to move.

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Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay

246: Clause 91, page 83, line 14, leave out “(...

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Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay

247A: Clause 91, page 83, line 19, at end inse...

I beg to move Amendment 247A.

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Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay

248: Clause 91, page 84, line 2, at end insert...

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Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay

249: After Clause 91, insert the following new...

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Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay

250: Clause 92, page 85, line 3, at end insert...

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Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay

250B: Clause 94, page 86, line 26, leave out “...

My Lords, these amendments are concerned with Ofcom’s powers under Clause 111 to issue notices to...

My Lords, I am conscious of the imprecation earlier from the noble Lord, Lord Stevenson of Balmac...

My Lords, the powers in Clause 111 are perhaps the most controversial outstanding issue in the Bi...

My Lords, I have put my name to and support Amendment 255, laid by the noble Lord, Lord Moylan, w...

My Lords, I rise to speak in favour of my noble friend Lord Moylan’s amendment. Given that I unde...

My Lords, I promise to speak very briefly. I welcome the Government’s amendments. I particularly ...

My Lords, I added my name to some amendments on this issue in Committee. I have not done so on Re...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Stowell. My noble friend has spoken...

My Lords, this has been—since we first got sight of the Bill and right the way through—one of the...

I am grateful to noble Lords for their further scrutiny of this important but complex area, and f...

Just to be clear, am I right to understand my noble friend as saying that there is currently no t...

For clarification, if the answer to that is that the technology does not exist—which I believe is...

To answer my noble friend Lady Stowell first, it depends on the type of service. It is difficult ...

Will the Minister write to noble Lords who have been here in Committee and on Report in response ...

I am very happy to put in writing what I have said from the Dispatch Box. The noble Baroness may ...

I appreciate the tone of the Minister’s comments very much, but they are not entirely reassuring ...

To meet the expectation the noble Lord voiced earlier, I will indeed point out that Ofcom can con...

Before the Minister finishes, I posed the question about whether, given the debate and issues rai...

I am afraid it is “no”, and if the noble Lord, Lord Allan, does seek to divide, we will oppose hi...

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Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay

250C: Clause 94, page 86, line 34, leave out p...

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Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay

252: Clause 94, page 88, line 2, at end insert...

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Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay

252A: Schedule 12, page 228, line 4, at end in...

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Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay

254: Clause 105, page 94, line 33, at end inse...

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Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay

254A: Clause 107, page 95, line 20, leave out ...

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Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay

255A: Clause 111, page 98, line 8, at end inse...

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Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay

256A: After Clause 111, insert the following n...

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Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay

257A: Clause 112, page 98, line 24, at end ins...

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Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay

257C: Clause 113, page 99, line 32, at end ins...

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Lord Allan of Hallam

258ZA: After Clause 114, insert the following new Claus...

I wish to test the opinion of the House.

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Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay

258A: Clause 115, page 102, line 24, leave out...

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Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay

260: Page 105, line 4, at end insert—