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Online Safety Bill

Committee of the Whole House (HL) and Debate on bills on Thursday, 25 May 2023, in the House of Lords, led by Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay. The answering member was Lord Knight of Weymouth.
Lords committee stage ninth day. Clause 49 agreed to. Clause 50, as amended, agreed to. Clause 51 agreed to. Clause 52, as amended, agreed to. Clause 53 agreed to. Schedules 5 and 6 agreed to. (Part 1 of 3).

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Session

2022-23

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House of Lords chamber
Online Safety Bill 2021-22 to 2022-23. Brought from the Commons.
Wednesday, 18 January 2023
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House of Lords
Online Safety Bill. Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform Committee twenty-eighth report.
Wednesday, 1 March 2023
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Online Safety Bill
Thursday, 25 May 2023
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Online Safety Bill
Thursday, 25 May 2023
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Proceeding contributions

Baroness Harding of Winscombe | 830 c989 (Link to this contribution)

Moved by

Baroness Harding of Winscombe

125: Clause 49, page 47, line 22, at end inser...

Baroness Harding of Winscombe | 830 cc989-993 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I rise to introduce this group. On Tuesday in Committee, I said that having reached day...


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Baroness Finlay of Llandaff | 830 c990 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I am very grateful to the noble Baroness, Lady Harding, for the way she introduced this...

Baroness Morris of Bolton | 830 c990 (Link to this contribution)

There are some children in the Public Gallery.

Baroness Finlay of Llandaff | 830 cc990-5 (Link to this contribution)

Then I shall slightly modify some of the things I was going to say.

When this Bill was conc...

Lord Harlech | 830 c995 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Baroness, Lady Finlay of Llandaff, for tempering her remarks...

Baroness Berridge | 830 cc995-6 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I rise to support Amendment 241, in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady Finlay, as she...

Lord Harlech | 830 c996 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I apologise to my noble friend. I ask that we pause the debate to ask this school group...

Baroness Finlay of Llandaff | 830 c996 (Link to this contribution)

In this moment while we pause, I congratulate the noble Lord, the Government Whip, for being so v...

Baroness Berridge | 830 cc996-7 (Link to this contribution)

I, too, thank my noble friend the Government Whip. I apologise too if I have spoken out of discou...

Viscount Colville of Culross | 830 cc997-8 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I have put my name to Amendments 195, 239 and 263. I also strongly support Amendment 12...

Bishop of Chelmsford | 830 cc998-1000 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I shall speak in favour of Amendments 195, 239 and 263, tabled in the names of my right...

Baroness Fox of Buckley | 830 cc1000-2 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, like others, I thank the Whips for intervening to protect children from hearing details...

Baroness Harding of Winscombe | 830 c1002 (Link to this contribution)

I am sorry to interrupt, but I will make a clarification; the noble Baroness is misinterpreting w...

Baroness Fox of Buckley | 830 c1002 (Link to this contribution)

I personally think that it is pessimistic view of the future to suggest that humanity cannot rise...

Lord Russell of Liverpool | 830 cc1002-3 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I will speak very briefly. I could disagree with much of what the noble Baroness just s...

Baroness Benjamin | 830 c1003 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, although I arrived a little late, I will say, very briefly, that I support the amendmen...

Lord Allan of Hallam | 830 cc1003-7 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, on behalf of my noble friend Lord Clement-Jones, I will speak in support of Amendments ...

Baroness Berridge | 830 c1007 (Link to this contribution)

I have had time just to double-check the offences. The problem that exists—and it would be helpfu...

Lord Allan of Hallam | 830 c1007 (Link to this contribution)

I am grateful to the noble Baroness. That is very helpful.

Baroness Harding of Winscombe | 830 c1007 (Link to this contribution)

That is exactly the same issue with child sexual abuse images—it is about the way in which crimin...

Lord Allan of Hallam | 830 c1007 (Link to this contribution)

I am grateful for that intervention as well. That summarises the core questions that we have for ...

Lord Knight of Weymouth | 830 cc1007-9 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, the debate on this group has been a little longer, deeper and more important than I had...

Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay | 830 cc1010-3 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, this has been a grim but important debate to open the Committee’s proceedings today. As...

Lord Allan of Hallam | 830 c1013 (Link to this contribution)

Will the review also cover an understanding of what has been happening in criminal cases where, i...

Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay | 830 c1014 (Link to this contribution)

I believe it will. Certainly, both government and Parliament will take into account judgments in ...

Baroness Berridge | 830 c1014 (Link to this contribution)

It is not just the judgments of the courts; it is about how the criminal law as a very basic poin...

Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay | 830 cc1014-5 (Link to this contribution)

I am happy to reassure my noble friend that the director of the Dawes Centre for Future Crime sit...

Lord Knight of Weymouth | 830 c1015 (Link to this contribution)

My concern is also whether or not the bot is out of control. Can the Minister clarify that issue?...

Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay | 830 cc1015-6 (Link to this contribution)

It depends on what the noble Lord means by “out of control” and what content the bot is producing...

Baroness Finlay of Llandaff | 830 c1016 (Link to this contribution)

This is a very interesting discussion; the noble Lord, Lord Knight, has hit on something really i...

Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay | 830 c1016 (Link to this contribution)

I certainly concur that we should discuss the issue in greater detail. I am very happy to do so w...

Baroness Harding of Winscombe | 830 cc1016-7 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have contributed to a thought-provoking and, I suspect, lon...

Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay | 830 c1017 (Link to this contribution)

Moved by

Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay

126A: Clause 50, page 48, line 31, at end inse...

Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay | 830 cc1017-8 (Link to this contribution)

Moved by

Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay

127A: Clause 50, page 49, line 9, at end inser...

Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay | 830 c1018 (Link to this contribution)

Moved by

Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay

127B: Clause 52, page 50, line 23, after secon...

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