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Online Safety Bill

Debate on bills on Thursday, 6 July 2023, in the House of Lords, led by Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay. The answering members were Lord Stevenson of Balmacara and Baroness Merron.
Lords report stage first day. Amendments 1, 7 and 8 to 26 agreed to. (Part 1 of 3).

About these Parliamentary proceedings

Reference

831 cc1319-1359 

Session

2022-23

Legislative stage

Report stage

Procedure

New clauses

Chamber / Committee

House of Lords chamber
Online Safety Bill. Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform Committee twenty-eighth report.
Wednesday, 1 March 2023
Parliamentary committees
House of Lords
Online Safety Bill. Constitution Committee fifteenth report
Wednesday, 15 March 2023
Parliamentary committees
House of Lords
Online Safety Bill 2021-22 to 2022-23. As amended in Committee.
Thursday, 22 June 2023
Bills
House of Lords
Online Safety Bill: Government response. Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform Committee thirty-eighth report.
Monday, 3 July 2023
Parliamentary committees
House of Lords

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Proceeding contributions

Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay | 831 c1319 (Link to this contribution)

Moved by

Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay

1: Before Clause 1, insert the following new C...

Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay | 831 cc1319-1321 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I am pleased that we are on Report, and I thank all noble Lords who took part in Commit...


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Baroness Merron | 831 c1320 (Link to this contribution)

Moved by

Baroness Merron

2: Before Clause 1, in subsection (2)(a), after “characteris...

Baroness Merron | 831 cc1320-2 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I would like to start on a positive note by thanking the Minister for responding to the...

Baroness Kidron | 831 c1322 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I will speak to Amendment 1, to which I was happy to add my name alongside that of the ...

Baroness Harding of Winscombe | 831 cc1322-3 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I too thank my noble friend the Minister for tabling Amendment 1, to which I add my sup...

Bishop of Manchester | 831 c1323 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I too support the Minister’s Amendment 1. I remember vividly, at the end of Second Read...

Lord Moylan | 831 c1323 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I am grateful to my noble friend the Minister for the meeting that he arranged with me ...

Lord Clement-Jones | 831 cc1323-4 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, needless to say, I disagree with what the noble Lord, Lord Moylan, has just been saying...

Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay | 831 cc1324-5 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, this has indeed set us on a good course, and I am grateful to noble Lords for their que...

Baroness Merron | 831 c1325 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister for his response. It is a very practical response and cer...

Lord Garnier | 831 c1325 (Link to this contribution)

Moved by

Lord Garnier

2A: Clause 162, page 141, line 32, after “psychological” insert...

Lord Garnier | 831 cc1325-7 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I shall speak briefly to Amendments 2A, 2B and 5A, which are in my name but perhaps mor...

Lord Allan of Hallam | 831 cc1326-8 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I will speak to Amendment 5B in my name and that of my noble friend Lord Clement-Jones....

Baroness Burt of Solihull | 831 cc1328-1330 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I support all the amendments in this group. However, what I have to say on my own amend...

Baroness Kennedy of the Shaws | 831 cc1331-3 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, Amendments 3 to 5 to Clause 164 are in my name. They relate to a matter that I raised i...

Baroness Fox of Buckley | 831 cc1333-4 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, first, I welcome the amendment from the noble Lord, Lord Allan, and his motivation, bec...

Baroness Morgan of Cotes | 831 cc1334-5 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I will speak briefly to Amendments 5C and 7A in this group. I welcome the Government’s ...

Baroness Kidron | 831 c1335 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I understand that, as this is a new stage of the Bill, I have to declare my interests: ...

Baroness Kidron | 831 c1335 (Link to this contribution)

My comments will be rather shorter. I want to make a detailed comment about Amendment 5B, which I...

Lord Allan of Hallam | 831 c1335 (Link to this contribution)

My working assumption would be that that would be contestable. If somebody claimed the peer suppo...

Baroness Kidron | 831 c1335 (Link to this contribution)

I also want to support the noble Baroness, Lady Kennedy. The level of abuse to women online and t...

Lord Clement-Jones | 831 cc1336-7 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I too must declare my interests on the register—I think that is the quickest way of doi...

Lord Stevenson of Balmacara | 831 cc1337-9 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, this has been an interesting debate that in a curious way moves us from the debate on t...

Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay | 831 cc1339-1341 (Link to this contribution)

I am grateful to my noble friends Lady Buscombe and Lord Leicester and my noble and learned frien...

Lord Allan of Hallam | 831 c1340 (Link to this contribution)

I appreciate the Minister’s response. Could he also respond to my suggestion that it would be hel...

Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay | 831 cc1340-2 (Link to this contribution)

I am very happy to make that commitment. It would be useful to have their continued engagement, a...

Baroness Burt of Solihull | 831 c1342 (Link to this contribution)

I am very grateful for the Minister’s comments. This is the crux of my confusion: I am not entire...

Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay | 831 c1342 (Link to this contribution)

If a defendant said that he—usually he—had sent an image believing that the consent of the recipi...

Lord Clement-Jones | 831 c1342 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, we are coming to this in the next group, but that is a consent-based offence, is it not...

Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay | 831 c1342 (Link to this contribution)

It is—and I shall explain more in that group why we take that approach. But the offence of cyberf...

Lord Clement-Jones | 831 c1342 (Link to this contribution)

I am sure that the noble and learned Lord, Lord Garnier, is going to come in, and he knows a grea...

Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay | 831 c1342 (Link to this contribution)

Perhaps I can respond to the point about intimate abuse when we come on to the next group—that mi...

Lord Clement-Jones | 831 c1342 (Link to this contribution)

It might be helpful—except for the refusal to accept my noble friend’s amendment.

Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay | 831 c1343 (Link to this contribution)

If the defendant said that they had sent an image because they thought that consent had been obta...

Lord Garnier | 831 c1343 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I do not want to interfere in private grief, but the courts have powers to protect witn...

Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay | 831 c1343 (Link to this contribution)

There are indeed but, as my noble and learned friend’s interjection makes clear, those are still ...

Baroness Burt of Solihull | 831 c1343 (Link to this contribution)

On the various protections already within that original amendment, if it went to court, why would...

Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay | 831 cc1344-5 (Link to this contribution)

It is about the burden on the medical professionals and the question of whether it comes to court...

Baroness Kennedy of the Shaws | 831 c1345 (Link to this contribution)

Before the Minister sits down, I express my gratitude that he has indicated that my amendment wou...

Lord Harlech | 831 c1345 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, without wishing to disrupt the very good nature of this debate, I remind the House that...

Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay | 831 c1345 (Link to this contribution)

None the less, I am grateful to the noble Baroness for her clarification and expansion of this po...

Baroness Kennedy of the Shaws | 831 c1345 (Link to this contribution)

It is not specific to women; it is general.

Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay | 831 c1345 (Link to this contribution)

The issue the noble Baroness has highlighted will protect all victims against people trying to ev...

Lord Garnier | 831 c1345 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I will be incredibly brief because everything that needs to be said has been said at le...

Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay | 831 c1346 (Link to this contribution)

Moved by

Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay

7: Clause 170, page 149, line 25, after “made”...

Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay | 831 cc1346-7 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I am grateful for the opportunity to continue some of the themes we touched on in the l...

Lord Allan of Hallam | 831 cc1347-9 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I welcome these new offences. From my professional experience, I know that what came to...

Baroness Kidron | 831 c1349 (Link to this contribution)

I also welcome these amendments and want to pay tribute to Maria Miller in the other place for he...

Baroness Morgan of Cotes | 831 c1349 (Link to this contribution)

Very briefly, before I speak to these amendments, I want to welcome them. Having spoken to and in...

Lord Clement-Jones | 831 cc1349-1350 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I have very little to add to the wise words that we have heard from my noble friend and...

Baroness Merron | 831 c1350 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister for introducing this suite of government amendments. From...

Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay | 831 cc1350-1 (Link to this contribution)

I am happy to respond clearly to that. As my right honourable friend Edward Argar MP and I said i...

Lord Clement-Jones | 831 c1351 (Link to this contribution)

If the Minister has time, can he actually direct us to that, because it is important that we are ...

Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay | 831 cc1351-2 (Link to this contribution)

In the amendments, if I can, I will. In the meantime, I reassure my noble friend Lady Morgan of C...

Baroness Kidron | 831 c1352 (Link to this contribution)

I believe I misspoke when I asked my question. I referred to under-18s. Of course, if they are un...

Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay | 831 c1352 (Link to this contribution)

If the noble Baroness misspoke, I understood what she intended. I knew what she was getting at.

Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay | 831 cc1352-5 (Link to this contribution)

Moved by

Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay

8: After Clause 170, insert the following new ...

Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay | 831 c1355 (Link to this contribution)

Moved by

Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay

9: After Clause 171, insert the following new ...

Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay | 831 c1356 (Link to this contribution)

Moved by

Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay

10: Clause 172, page 150, line 15, leave out “...

Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay | 831 cc1356-9 (Link to this contribution)

Moved by

Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay

12: Schedule 14, page 240, line 24, after firs...

Notes

Scottish and Welsh legislative consent granted.
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