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HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Eleventh sitting)indicated assent .16 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Twelfth sitting)As my hon. Friend the Member for Pontypridd has pointed out, there is little or no transparency about one of the most critical ways in which platforms tackle harms. Human…16 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Eleventh sitting)Before the Minister gets past this point—I think he has reached the point of my question—the fees do not kick in for two years. The figure is £88 million, but the point I was…16 Jun 2022HANSARDMigration and Economic Development Partnership with RwandaCan the Home Secretary confirm that the Home Office itself withdrew people from the flight on Friday and yesterday because it accepted that they were victims of torture or…15 Jun 2022HANSARDRail StrikesMy hon. Friend is right to highlight the missing-in-action Transport Secretary. A couple of Conservative Members raised the issue of schoolchildren taking their GCSEs and…15 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Ninth sitting)No, it hasn’t. We did not get a chance to speak to either schedule 5 or schedule 6.14 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Tenth sitting)You are really moving us at pace, Sir Roger. It is a pleasure to serve in Committee with you in the Chair. It is welcome that regulated services will have to report all child…14 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Tenth sitting)The additional regulations created by the Secretary of State in connection with the reports will have a lot resting on them. It is vital that they receive the appropriate scrutiny…14 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Tenth sitting)I am not sure that the Minister has answered my question on clause 60. I think we all agree that law enforcement agencies can decide their own priorities, quite rightly, but…14 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Tenth sitting)Clause 63 sets out that the CSEA content required to be reported must have been published, generated, uploaded or shared either in the UK, by a UK citizen, or including a child in…14 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Tenth sitting)What the Minister has said is helpful, but the question I asked was about what guidance and support will be made available to regulated services. We all want this to work, because…14 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Tenth sitting)I beg to move amendment 54, in clause 64, page 56, line 29, leave out “Once” and insert “Twice”. This amendment would change the requirement for transparency report notices from…14 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Tenth sitting)The duties on regulated services set out in the clause are welcome. Transparency reports will be a vital tool to hold platforms to account for understanding the true drivers of…14 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Tenth sitting)I very much agree. We cannot emphasis that enough, and it is useful that my hon. Friend has set that out, adding to what I was saying. Amendment 55 sets out the details of the…14 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Tenth sitting)I thank the hon. Gentleman and I agree. It is a constant frustration that we need this Bill. We do need it, though. In fact, amendment 55 would really assist with that, by…14 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Tenth sitting)On amendment 55, I want to come back to the Minister on two points about languages that were made by the hon. Member for Aberdeen North. I think most people would be shocked to…14 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Tenth sitting)I will just make a final point. The Bill gives Ofcom powers when it already has so much to do. We keep returning to the point of how much will ride on Ofcom’s decisions. Our…14 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Ninth sitting)indicated dissent .14 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Seventh sitting)Is the Minister coming on to say that he is accepting what we are saying here?09 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Seventh sitting)The Minister has not addressed the points I raised. I specifically raised—he has not touched on this—harmful pro-anorexia blogs, which we know are dangerous but are not in scope,…09 Jun 2022