Online Safety Bill [HL]

My Lords, I will be brief. I speak in support of Amendments 1 and 2, to which I have put my name....

My Lords, at Second Reading, I picked up on “duty”, which is the first word in the clause, and su...

My Lords, I, too, congratulate the noble Baroness, Lady Howe, on getting to this stage. The fact ...

My Lords, I shall be brief. First, I, too, congratulate the noble Baroness, Lady Howe, on her eff...

My Lords, in the film “Groundhog Day”, progress cannot be made unless the principal character com...

My Lords, I recognise the noble Baroness, Lady Howe, for her unwavering commitment to this agenda...

My Lords, I am very grateful to everyone who spoke in support of the amendment. I am somewhat dis...

Moved by

Baroness Benjamin

3: Clause 2, page 2, line 33, leave out “user is able to a...

My Lords, this is a probing amendment and I very much look forward to hearing what the Minister s...

My Lords, I am very pleased to speak in support of the amendment proposed by the noble Baroness, ...

This amendment is quite logical, if the provisions are going to work. It is obvious that, if peop...

As a non-lawyer, may I intervene with a query? The phrase “adult” services is a colloquial euphem...

My Lords, I congratulate the noble Baroness, Lady Benjamin, on her amendment, which put the whole...

My Lords, like the noble Earl, Lord Erroll, I think this is a logical amendment which follows the...

I thank noble Lords for their comments. This discussion has gone way beyond the scope of the amen...

I may have misheard the Minister. Will she repeat the date? I thought she said December 2015, but...

I said December 2016. As the Prime Minister said in response to this issue, we will make sure tha...

Governments always want everything to be perfect, and this is a rapidly moving target in a very m...

I could not agree more with my noble friend.

My Lords, I am very grateful to all noble Lords who have participated in this debate. I am happy ...

Moved by

Lord Morrow

3A: Clause 2, page 3, line 3, after “Assent” insert “, including...

My Lords, this is a probing amendment which makes explicit two of the matters that the Ofcom repo...

My Lords, I support the amendment from the noble Lord, Lord Morrow. Ofcom should have to report o...

My Lords, I do not want to add too much to the way that the noble Lord, Lord Morrow, has framed h...

My Lords, I want to say a few things at this point because this amendment refers to age-verificat...

The noble Earl obviously knows a huge amount about the subject and he is speaking in a way that I...

Being realistic, I suspect that the Minister’s timetable in the real world is probably very sensi...

Does the noble Earl accept that there is a huge difference between the problems that might arise ...

I totally accept that. I was just using it as an example of where legislation has gone through in...

I congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Morrow, on his amendment, which he moved so ably, not least b...

My Lords, I opened my comments this morning by referring to the film “Groundhog Day”. I did so in...

I thank all noble Lords for their comments. I start by addressing the conflation of some issues a...

I do not think anyone is denying that it will take time to implement things. Clearly, the time ta...

I thank the noble Lord for his intervention. The commitment to this is voluntary and clear. Of co...

My Lords, I am very grateful to all those who have spoken in this debate today. I have listened i...

I would be absolutely delighted to meet noble Lords on this matter. In fact, maybe some noble Lor...

I thank the Minister for her very positive response and look forward to that meeting in the not t...

Tabled by

Baroness Howe of Idlicote

4: Clause 8, page 5, line 5, after “be” insert “—...

My Lords, I am very pleased to speak in support of Amendments 4 to 7 from the noble Baroness, Lad...

My Lords, I apologise for the delay in finding my papers, particularly to the noble Lord, Lord Mc...

My Lords, it seems to me that the Government, after so much time has elapsed and so many of our y...

My Lords, we have been talking about payments. I agree entirely that the big challenge is everybo...

I am sorry to keep picking the noble Earl’s brain, but for the purposes of today’s debate, is the...

Yes, there is, interestingly enough. It is to do with the law. Because of anti-money laundering, ...

I am sorry to ask again. The example that has been given mentions embarrassment, but it is not te...

The example I have given is one that is career-destroying. The knock-on effect of that could invo...

My Lords, that is exactly the point. The noble Earl, Lord Erroll, as ever is championing an indus...

No, I am not trying to champion the industry, I am trying to protect children properly. The point...

My Lords, I thank the noble Earl for his explanation. I do not think that anyone in this House ac...

Perhaps I may respond briefly. Because I know that the Government fully intend to bring forward l...

My Lords, I agree with much of what has been said so far, especially by the noble Baroness, but w...

I thank all noble Lords for their contributions, and I state one more time that there is no ambig...

My Lords, I beg leave to withdraw the amendment.

Moved by

Baroness Howe of Idlicote

8: Clause 10, page 6, line 22, leave out “designat...

My Lords, Amendments 8 to 13 constitute the third group of amendments that I have tabled in respo...

My Lords, I warmly welcome these amendments, which will help to strengthen further this very impo...

I thank the noble Baroness for these amendments and the innovative approach that she has outlined...

My Lords, having listened off and on to the debate, it strikes me that my noble friend the Minist...

I thank my noble friend for giving me the opportunity to clarify this point. The consultation tha...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Baroness for that clarification. However, will she confirm t...

I confirm that we have to react to what has happened in Europe. The European net neutrality direc...

I beg leave to withdraw the amendment.

Moved by

Baroness Howe of Idlicote

14: In the Title, line 3, leave out from “require”...

My Lords, I think by now your Lordships will be aware that this is the fifth Online Safety Bill t...

My Lords, the Government have noted the noble Baroness’s proposed changes to the Long Title of th...

Moved by

Baroness Howe of Idlicote

15: In the Title, line 5, leave out “and” and inse...