Digital Economy

With this we shall consider the following motions:

That the draft British Board of Film Cla...

The Digital Economy Act 2017 introduced the requirement for commercial providers of online pornog...

This legislation is long overdue and I really welcome it. I ask the House to indulge me for a sec...

I thank my hon. Friend for that heartfelt intervention. I am very sorry indeed to hear about that...

In the Women and Equalities Committee, as a response to the awfulness of the #MeToo campaign, we ...

I must congratulate the Women and Equalities Committee on its extremely valuable work in this are...

I understand that, in 2015, Ofcom said that that was the pivotal time when we switched from peopl...

I follow my hon. Friend’s logic. That was the conclusion that Ofcom reached. It is definitely wor...

I am sure that there is consensus across the House about protecting young people under the age of...

The hon. Gentleman makes some very good points. I am aware of some of the cases to which he refer...

I very much welcome today’s debate and the Government’s proposals, but parents who are listening ...

I welcome the intervention from the Chair of the Women and Equalities Committee. Let me clarify h...

Will the Minister give way?

Will my hon. Friend give way?

I am sorry that I am taking a long time to answer my right hon. Friend’s point, but it is an impo...

Does my hon. Friend agree that, when children have such experiences at a very young age, it can a...

I very much agree that, if children see hardcore pornography when they are too young to understan...

As a member of the Science and Technology Committee, I have been involved in our ongoing report o...

My hon. Friend raises some important points. We do have rising expectations of social media platf...

My hon. Friend is making an excellent speech dealing with this critical issue that any of us who ...

These regulations will apply even to pornographic sites that make their initial offer free of cha...

I chaired the UK Council for Child Internet Safety for two and half years. While I applaud the re...

I congratulate my hon. Friend on the work that he has done while chairing that important body, th...

Further to the comments by my colleague on the Home Affairs Committee, the hon. Member for East W...

I can reassure the hon. Gentleman that serious work is being undertaken as we speak, as we prepar...

Does the Minister believe that the BBFC has sufficient resources and skills to do what the regula...

I would like to reassure my hon. Friend that I certainly think it has the experience, expertise a...

I wonder whether I could press the Minister on the robustness of age verification, which is of in...

Age-verification providers will have to demonstrate that they have a foolproof system of identify...

Should I be concerned by reports that a company called AgeID, which operates the ID verification ...

The Minister is being very generous in taking a great many interventions, and I appreciate that s...

Thank you for your guidance, Madam Deputy Speaker, which I will take on board, but I will just de...

How do the Government intend to ensure that these regulations can keep up with technological adva...

My hon. Friend raises a very important point. The principal way in which we are future-proofing t...

Order. Before I call the Opposition spokesman, let me say it will be obvious that many people wis...

On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. You can see by the number of people who want to speak ...

That is a perfectly reasonable point of order, but not now. There was a point when Mr Speaker ask...

I will be as brief as I can, because I know that the whole House will want to hear from my hon. F...

Order. As I indicated earlier, we will start with a time limit of four minutes.

7.57 pm

I will curtail my comments to the utmost brevity.

I strongly welcome the regulations, but I...

I believe that all of us in the Chamber tonight want to find common ground and a common way forwa...

I very much welcome this groundbreaking piece of legislation and thank the Minister for going thr...

I will rattle through some points, because I would like them to be on the record for the Minister...

Am I right that the point my hon. Friend wants to register this evening is that there is much to ...

That is absolutely right, and that becomes more apparent as we go forward. This legislation is ve...

Order.

8.13 pm

I knew that parliamentarians on both sides of the Chamber agree that we have a duty to provide th...

I will keep my remarks brief not only because of the time available, but because many of the conc...

It is a pleasure to be called to speak in this important debate, and to be part of a debate in wh...

I am pleased to speak in support of the regulations and guidance, although I want to register som...

With the leave of the House, Mr Deputy Speaker, I thank the right hon. Member for Birmingham, Hod...

We come now to a series of potentially deferrable motions: motions 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9. Not moved...