Online Safety Bill

My Lords, I reiterate what the noble Lord, Lord Bethell, has said and thank him for our various d...

My Lords, I welcome the government amendments in this group, which set out the important role tha...

My Lords, I shall follow on directly from some of the comments of the noble Baroness, Lady Kidron...

Just to be clear, I say that the purpose of my question to the Minister was to get at the fact th...

I agree; that is very helpful. I think Amendments 74, 93 and 99 also talk about the exclusion, as...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for engaging with the amendment in my name and that of the noble B...

My Lords, I rise to speak to Amendment 184 in my name—

My Lords, the guidance in the Companion states that Peers who were not present for the opening of...

My Lords, that neatly brings me to the beginning of my own speech. I have expressed to the Chief ...

My Lords, this has been a good debate, perhaps unfairly curtailed in terms of the range of voices...

My Lords, I am sorry that the noble Baroness, Lady Benjamin, was unable to be here for the start ...

My Lords, I apologise to the Minister. Can he write giving chapter and verse for that particular ...

I am very happy to do that. That would probably be better than me trying to do so at length from ...

I just realised I forgot to thank the Government for Amendment 271, which reflected something I r...

I appreciate the noble Lord’s interjection and, indeed, his engagement on this issue, which has i...

Moved by

Baroness Kidron

35: Clause 10, page 9, line 37, at end insert—

“(iv) f...

My Lords, I rise to speak to all the amendments in this group. It is a cause of great regret that...

My Lords, as so often in the course of the Bill, I associate myself wholeheartedly with the comme...

My Lords, as often, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Baronesses, Lady Harding and Lady Kidron...

My Lords, I will speak, in part, to two amendments with my name on them and which my noble friend...

My Lords, I rise to support the amendments in the names of the intrepid noble Baroness, Lady Kidr...

My Lords, it is a great pleasure to follow the veteran campaigner on this issue, the noble Barone...

My Lords, I also support the amendments from the noble Baroness, Lady Kidron. It is relatively ea...

I rise briefly to speak to this group of amendments. I want to pick up where my noble friend Lord...

My Lords, I very strongly support the noble Baroness, Lady Kidron, in her Amendments 35, 36 and 2...

There is always a simple question. We are in a bit of a mess—again. When I said at Second Reading...

My Lords, I am very grateful for the discussion we have had today and the parallel discussions th...

My Lords, I thank everybody who has spoken for these amendments. I also thank the Minister for ou...

Moved by

Baroness Kidron

36: Clause 11, page 10, line 38, at end insert—

“(c) m...

Moved by

Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay

37: Clause 11, page 10, line 42, leave out “(f...

Moved by

Baroness Kidron

37A: Clause 11, page 10, line 46, at end insert—

“(c) ...

Moved by

Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay

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I beg to move.

Amendment 39 (to Amendment 38)

Moved by

Lord Bethell

39: Clause 11, at end insert—

“(3D) If the duty in subsec...

My Lords, I commend the Minister for the great strides forward which have been made since Committ...

My Lords, the final issue I raised in Committee is dealt with in this group on so-called proporti...

My Lords, I will briefly address Amendments 43 and 87 in my name. I thank the noble Baronesses, L...

My Lords, I follow the noble Lord, Lord Russell, particularly in talking about Amendments 43, 87 ...

My Lords, as somebody who is only five feet and two inches, I have felt that size does not matter...

My Lords, I have to admit that it was incompetence rather than lack of will that meant I did not ...

My Lords, I agree with the noble Baroness, Lady Kidron, that all these amendments are very much h...

My Lords, as we have heard, this is a small group of amendments concerned with preventing size an...

My Lords, short debates can be helpful and useful. I am grateful to noble Lords who have spoken o...

My Lords, I thank my noble friend the Minister for that reassurance. He put the points extremely ...

Moved by

Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay

41: Clause 11, page 11, line 1, leave out from...

Moved by

Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay

44: Clause 11, page 12, line 12, leave out “th...

Moved by

Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay

47: Clause 11, page 12, line 21, leave out “su...

Moved by

Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay

53: After Clause 11, insert the following new ...

Moved by

Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay

57: Clause 12, page 13, line 9, after “(2)” in...

Moved by

Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay

60: Clause 12, page 13, line 10, at end insert...

Moved by

Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay

65: Clause 12, page 13, line 24, leave out “su...

Moved by

Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay

74: Clause 16, page 19, line 26, leave out fro...

Moved by

Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay

75: Clause 17, page 21, line 2, leave out “11(...

Moved by

Baroness Fox of Buckley

77: Clause 18, page 21, line 30, after “implementing...

My Lords, I am rather disappointed that, while this is a large group on freedom of expression, it...

My Lords, my noble friend on the Front Bench said at various points when we were in Committee tha...

My Lords, I speak to Amendments 286 and 294, which are the last two amendments in this group, and...

My Lords, I want to respond to some of the comments made by the noble Baroness, Lady Fox, and the...

I understand the point the noble Lord is making but, if he were thrown out, sacked or treated in ...

That point is well made. In support of that, if the public space treated me in a discriminatory w...

My Lords, I have said several times when we have been debating this Bill—and I will probably say ...

My Lords, I rise briefly to note that, in the exchange between the noble Lords, Lord Allan and Lo...

My Lords, we are dangerously on the same page this evening. I absolutely agree with the noble Bar...

It is always nice to be nice to the Minister.

I will reference, briefly, the introduction o...

My Lords, I hope that the noble Baroness, Lady Fox, and my noble friend Lord Moylan do feel that ...

My Lords, before my noble friend sits down, perhaps I could seek a point of clarification. I thin...

As I set out, I think my noble friend and the noble Baroness, Lady Fox, are not right to point to...

On that point specifically, having worked inside one of the companies, they fear legal action und...

My Lords, I genuinely appreciate this debate. The noble Lord, Lord Clement-Jones, made what I tho...

Moved by

Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay

82: Clause 19, page 23, line 30, at end insert...