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HANSARDPublic Service Broadcasting (Communications and Digital Committee Report)My Lords, it has been an absolute pleasure to listen to this debate this afternoon. I echo the thanks of other noble Lords to my noble friend Lord Gilbert for securing the debate…27 May 2021HANSARDDormant Assets Bill [HL]My Lords, with the leave of the House, I thank all noble Lords for their valuable contributions today. The debate has indeed been very wide-ranging, and your Lordships have set me…26 May 2021HANSARDDormant Assets Bill [HL]That the Bill be read a second time.26 May 2021HANSARDDormant Assets Bill [HL]My Lords, this Bill delivers on the Government’s commitment to expand the dormant assets scheme. Not only does the scheme provide a great opportunity to support industry’s work to…26 May 2021HANSARDBBC: Dyson ReportI can only repeat what I said earlier, which is that that appears to me to sit as an editorial decision for the BBC.25 May 2021HANSARDBBC: Dyson ReportMy noble friend is absolutely right that the BBC needs urgently to demonstrate that the failings to which he refers have been addressed, that they can never happen again, and that…25 May 2021HANSARDBBC: Dyson ReportWe absolutely agree—we want a strong and successful public broadcasting system, and that needs the BBC to be a central part of it. As my right honourable friend the Secretary of…25 May 2021HANSARDBBC: Dyson ReportThe mid-term review is really a health check point that was built in to the charter review process to look at the effectiveness of governance and regulation, rather than the more…25 May 2021HANSARDBBC: Dyson ReportThe noble and learned Lord raises another troubling example. All of these will be important to address if the BBC is to rebuild the trust we all wish it to have.25 May 2021HANSARDBBC: Dyson ReportMy noble friend is right to question the culture of the BBC. We welcome the fact that the new chair and director-general are doing the same, as my noble friend says, in relation…25 May 2021HANSARDBBC: Dyson ReportIt is obviously up to the board of the BBC to determine the scope of the review. I am sure the noble Baroness has seen the letter today from the chief executive of Ofcom about its…25 May 2021HANSARDBBC: Dyson ReportMy noble friend’s first question falls into the area of editorial independence, although I share the very real concerns he raises. On the forgery of the bank statements, as my…25 May 2021HANSARDBBC: Dyson ReportI do not completely agree with the noble Baroness: I think part of the role of good governance is to check that inbreeding is not happening within an organisation, and that the…25 May 2021HANSARDBBC: Dyson ReportI absolutely agree: it is essential that the BBC can operate with editorial independence and integrity, and nothing we are doing will compromise that.25 May 2021HANSARDDigital Identification ProtocolI absolutely do not accept the noble Lord’s assertion about the political complexion of recent appointments. All go through the public appointments process and are entirely…20 May 2021HANSARDDigital Identification ProtocolWe are not planning to reinvent anything. We will continue to run the Verify system, plan for its retirement and the offboarding of services, while working closely with…20 May 2021HANSARDDigital Identification ProtocolThe noble Lord raises an important question. It will be through the transparency that I mentioned earlier, with the publication of the trust framework alpha and a second…20 May 2021HANSARDDigital Identification ProtocolI thank my noble friend for highlighting another opportunity for digital ID. The Government are committed to realising the benefits of these technologies, albeit without creating…20 May 2021HANSARDDigital Identification ProtocolThe noble Baroness will know that issues around anonymity on social media are extremely complex. She rightly raises instances where anonymity is abused, but we also know that some…20 May 2021HANSARDDigital Identification ProtocolMy noble friend makes an important point on which I absolutely agree. That is why we have taken this very transparent approach with the publication of the trust framework alpha. A…20 May 2021