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HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Seventh sitting)This is the point about individual redress again: by talking about super-complaints, the Minister seems to be agreeing that it is not there. As I said earlier, for…09 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Seventh sitting)The Minister said that the Opposition had not tabled an amendment to bring in an ombudsman.09 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Seventh sitting)Will the Minister give way?09 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Seventh sitting)As the Minister says, clauses 19 and 29 are designed to provide a set of balancing provisions that will require companies to have regard to freedom of expression and privacy when…09 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Seventh sitting)Record-keeping and review duties on in-scope services make up an important function of the regulatory regime that we are discussing today. Platforms will need to report all harms…09 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Seventh sitting)On this clause. What we have done, however—we are debating it now—is to table a new clause to require a report on redress for individual complaints. The Minister talks about…09 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Seventh sitting)I will speak to new clause 1. Although duties about complaints procedures are welcome, it has been pointed out that service providers’ user complaints processes are often obscure…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 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 (Eighth sitting)I beg to move amendment 23, in clause 34, page 33, line 41, after “service” insert “that targets users”.09 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Seventh sitting)The purpose of the amendment is to remove the child use test from the children’s access assessment and to make sure that any service likely to be accessed by children is within…09 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Seventh sitting)Good morning, Ms Rees. It is important that users of online services are empowered to report harmful content, so that it can be removed. It is also important for users to have…09 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Eighth sitting)New clause 5 would tackle one of the reasons people become subject to fraud online by introducing a duty for search engines to ensure that all paid-for search advertisements…09 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Seventh sitting)I beg to move amendment 22, in clause 31, page 31, line 17, leave out subsection (3). This amendment removes the condition that applies a child use test to a service or part of a…09 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Eighth sitting)No, we want to press this amendment to a vote. I have had further comment from the organisations that I quoted. They believe that we do need the amendment because it is important…09 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Eighth sitting)I am aware that the Minister has reconsidered the clause and tabled a Government amendment that is also in this group, with the same purpose as our amendment 45. That is welcome,…09 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Eighth sitting)Does the Minister want to say anything about the other points I made about advertisements?09 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Eighth sitting)The problem is that we are getting into the wording of the Bill. As with the child abuse clause that we discussed before lunch, there are limitations. Clause 3 states that a…09 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Eighth sitting)We are going to press amendments 23 and 24 to a vote because they are very important. I cited the example of earlier legislation that considered it important, in relation to…09 Jun 2022HANSARDEngagementsQ12. The Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra and the Kyiv Symphony Orchestra are due to visit the UK this summer to perform at the BBC Proms, the Edinburgh Festival and other venues.…08 Jun 2022