Online Safety Bill

My Lords, I welcome the amendments the Government have tabled, but I ask the Minister to clarify ...

My Lords, like the noble Baroness, Lady Stowell, I have no major objection and support the Govern...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for his very clear and precise introduction of these amendments. A...

My Lords, I want very briefly to probe something. I may have got the wrong end of the stick, but ...

My Lords, I am sorry; in my enthusiasm to get this day of Committee off to a swift start, I perha...

What my noble friend said is absolutely fine with me, and I thank him very much for it. It might ...

To be continued.

Moved by

Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay

50C: Clause 14, page 15, line 44, leave out su...

Moved by

Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay

50F: Clause 15, page 17, line 14, at end inser...

Moved by

Baroness Merron

52: After Clause 15, after Clause 15, insert the following n...

My Lords, I shall speak to this group which includes Amendments 52, 99 and 222 in my name. These ...

My Lords, it is a great honour to rise after the noble Baroness, Lady Merron, who spoke so clearl...

My Lords, I shall speak to Amendments 59, 107 and 264 in this group, all of which are in my name....

My Lords, I have given notice in this group that I believe Clause 139 should not stand part of th...

My Lords, I have attached my name to Amendments 52 and 99 in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady...

The noble Baroness makes two incredibly important points. We are seeking to give people greater a...

I thank the noble Lord for his intervention. He has made me think of the fact that a particular a...

My Lords, I will speak to a number of amendments in this group. I want to make the point that mis...

My Lords, I support Amendment 52, tabled by my noble friend Lady Merron. This is an important iss...

My Lords, this has been a very interesting debate. I absolutely agree with what the noble Barones...

My Lords, this debate has demonstrated the diversity of opinion regarding misinformation and disi...

I am curious as to what the Bill says about misinformation and disinformation in relation to chil...

I am sorry—I am not sure I follow the noble Baroness’s question.

Twice so far in his reply, the Minister has said that this measure will protect children from mis...

Yes, that is what the measure does—for instance, where it intersects with the named categories of...

The Minister mentioned “acute” examples of misinformation and used the example of the pandemic. I...

This might be an appropriate moment for me to say—on the back of that—that, although my noble fri...

While I am happy to elaborate on the work of the counter-disinformation unit in the way I just ha...

My Lords, I am most grateful to noble Lords across the Committee for their consideration and for ...

The noble Baroness is entirely right to emphasise amplification. May I put into the mix the very ...

I certainly agree with the noble Lord, Lord Bethell, on that point. It is absolutely right to tal...

Moved by

Lord Knight of Weymouth

52A: After Clause 15, insert the following new Claus...

I move this amendment in my name as part of a group of amendments on media literacy. I am gratefu...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to take part in today’s proceedings. As it is my first contribution on...

My Lords, for once, I am not entirely hostile to all these amendments—hurrah. In fact, I would ra...

My Lords, I will speak to Amendments 236, 237 and 238 in my name. I thank the noble Lord, Lord St...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Prashar, and I join her in thanking...

My Lords, over the last decade, I have been in scores of schools, run dozens of workshops and spo...

My Lords, I strongly support the amendments in the name of my noble friend Lord Knight and others...

My Lords, I indicate my support in principle for what these amendments are trying to achieve.

My Lords, I spoke at Second Reading about the relationship between online safety and protecting p...

My Lords, this has probably been the most constructive and inspiring debate that we have had on t...

My Lords, this has been a good debate. I am glad that a number of noble Lords mentioned Lord Putt...

Does the Minister know how many children are on computing courses?

I do not know, but I shall find out from the Department for Education and write. But those who ar...

My Lords, I am grateful to all Members of the Committee for their contributions to a good debate....

Moved by

Baroness Morgan of Cotes

53: Clause 16, page 18, line 10, at end insert—

My Lords, I shall speak to Amendments 53 to 55, and Amendments 86, 87, 162 to 173, and 175 to 181...

My Lords, I also have a pair of amendments in this group. I am patron of a charity called JobsAwa...

My Lords, I had the great privilege of serving as a member of this House’s Fraud Act 2006 and Dig...

My Lords, I shall say very briefly in support of these amendments that in 2017, the 5Rights Found...

My Lords, this has been an interesting short debate and the noble Baroness, Lady Morgan, made a v...

It is the simple requests that always seem to evade the easy solutions. I will not go back over t...

I am grateful to my noble friends for their amendments in this group, and for the useful debate t...

My Lords, I am grateful to my noble friend for replying to my amendments and for his offer of a m...

My Lords, I thank my noble friend the Minister very much indeed for his response. Although this h...