Media Bill

My Lords, I support Amendments 1, 2 and 4 from the noble Baroness, Lady Bull, and will speak to A...

My Lords, I have put my name to Amendments 1 and 2 because it is essential that, in the first cla...

My Lords, I was happy to add my name to this, because it underlines the benefit of Channel 4. I a...

My Lords, I rise to speak on Amendment 8 in my name with a heavy heart, in the hope that someone ...

My Lords, I will speak to Amendment 9 in my name. I apologise to the House and to the Minister fo...

My Lords, I will speak briefly to my Amendment 7. The listed events regime is something that we a...

My Lords, I rise to support Amendment 1 and to echo some of the concerns raised by the noble Baro...

My Lords, I support Amendment 9 because the quality of news in total has deteriorated over the la...

Does the noble Lord mean GB News? He keeps saying GM News.

Correct: GB News. It allows one Tory MP to interview another Tory MP, which is against the rules,...

My Lords, I will bring the House to the safe harbour of the Cross Benches and take us away from t...

I say sorry to the noble Lord, Lord Russell, for going back to being political. But I say to the ...

My Lords, as the Minister knows, we are keen that the Bill should be on the statute book, as is t...

My Lords, we are back for Report stage of the Bill rather sooner than we anticipated when we had ...

Can I take it from those comments that the Minister actually believes that there should be far mo...

Question!

I am asking a question. Would the Minister like to comment on the fact that the BBC and Ofcom are...

The noble Lord will not be surprised that I do not agree with his final points. But I agree on th...

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords for their support, and the sector organisations that have campa...

Moved by

Baroness Bull

4: Clause 1, page 2, line 44, insert—

“(ia) is of an edu...

Moved by

Earl Attlee

11: Clause 50, page 116, line 26, leave out subsections (2) and ...

My Lords, in moving Amendment 11, in my name and that of the noble Baroness, Lady Hollins, I also...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Earl, Lord Attlee, for moving Amendment 11 and for his brave...

My Lords, my name appears on all three amendments in this group and therefore it is very tempting...

Whips should be seen and not heard.

That is right. He has succeeded; I have lost my thread.

If we had had more time or if the p...

My Lords, I rise briefly to associate the Green Party with the remarks of both the noble Earl, Lo...

My Lords, I thank the Minister and Members from all parts of the House for their good wishes abou...

My Lords, when a judge gives a dissenting judgment, he or she often says that they have the misfo...

My Lords, I am extremely grateful to the noble Lord for giving way; I love debating this subject ...

The noble Earl knows very well indeed that I cannot possibly have any knowledge of the circumstan...

If the noble Lord had been in the House yesterday, he would have heard my account of a woman whos...

Again, the House cannot possibly know all the circumstances. I very much doubt it, but IPSO may h...

I am listening carefully to what the noble Lord is saying. Is he not amply illustrating the point...

The reality of political life—the noble Lord knows this as much as I do—is that wash-up is a very...

My Lords—

Wait a minute. I have continued to consider so since, and my views are confirmed by the fact that...

My Lords—

Give me a moment. I said I would give way, but I would like to finish my point. If the noble Baro...

I thank the noble Lord for giving way, and I suggest that perhaps his tone is testimony to the de...

That is a very sensitive subject.

My Lords—

No—please let me answer the noble Baroness. The treatment of disabled people is a very contentiou...

I had misjudged this debate. I thought that the noble Lord, Lord Black, would be the Don Quixote—...

The noble Lord may recall, and the noble Lord, Lord Watson, will certainly recall, that Impress, ...

The noble Lord lost his case on that.

5.15 pm

My Lords, as a relatively new Member of this House, I rise with great trepidation, following the ...

We on these Benches are in favour of these amendments and think we should proceed now.

I would like to add something to the constitutional points which were made by my noble friend Lor...

My Lords, I want only to reflect slightly on some of the comments that have been made about the t...

My Lords—

My Lords, I think the convention of the House is that, on Report, a noble Lord has only one bite ...

My Lords, as the noble Lord, Lord Bassam, said, this has been a long debate, as our debate yester...

My Lords, I am grateful for the contribution of all noble Lords. My noble friend the Minister cal...

Moved by

Viscount Astor

14: After Clause 50, insert the following new Clause—

“...

My Lords, yesterday we debated my amendment, and in normal circumstances I would not have moved i...

My Lords, I am grateful to my noble friend Lord Astor for outlining his amendment today. We debat...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for his response and for the way that he has conducted the Bill. I...

Moved by

Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay

My Lords, I am grateful to noble Lords for their understanding and flexibility today. This is my ...

You look very clean!

Yes, I feel very clean at the end of it—thoroughly washed.

I am grateful to noble Lords who...

I have not had the chance to say my thanks and I want to thank the Minister. Apart from anything ...

Who is this Bruce Springsteen that everybody has been talking about?

Yes, there was one little thing I wondered. The noble Lord, Lord Watson, said that he was going t...

Yes, it was.

You were not—oh, my goodness. Anyway, as I was saying, I thank everyone, including the Government...

My Lords, I sort of gave my thanks yesterday, as I was not really sure what we would be doing tod...