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HANSARDOnline Harms: Intimate ImagesMy Lords, we are doing it now, with the revenge porn intimate offences that already exist in criminal law. Of course, we will keep a very close eye on how the digital world and IT…28 Oct 2020HANSARDUnited Kingdom Internal Market BillI am not going to give the noble Lord a definitive answer now but I will write to him to make sure that we are clear about that issue.28 Oct 2020HANSARDUnited Kingdom Internal Market BillMy Lords, these amendments seek to exclude teaching services and the teaching profession from the scope of the mutual recognition principle in Parts 2 and 3 of the Bill. Starting…28 Oct 2020HANSARDOnline Harms: Intimate ImagesMy Lords, things move on very fast. Yes, I quite agree with the noble Baroness that everybody—the education system, the parents and, particularly, the online organisations—is…28 Oct 2020HANSARDOnline Harms: Intimate ImagesMy Lords, the police and the courts are well equipped to deal with those who share or threaten to share intimate images, both online and offline. Perhaps the most significant…28 Oct 2020HANSARDOnline Harms: Intimate ImagesOn regulation, I quite agree with my noble friend. We intend to establish in law a new duty of care on companies to ensure that they have robust systems and processes in place to…28 Oct 2020HANSARDUnited Kingdom Internal Market BillMy Lords, I do not intend to have a debate on the union tonight, but I am sure it will come up later in the Bill. However, I reiterate to the noble Lord, Lord Fox, what I said on,…28 Oct 2020HANSARDOnline Harms: Intimate ImagesI have already given that undertaking. The Government will look at all the amendments to the Domestic Abuse Bill put forward.28 Oct 2020HANSARDOnline Harms: Intimate ImagesMy Lords, we are committed to making the UK the safest place to be online and to introducing online harms legislation establishing a new duty of care on companies towards users.…28 Oct 2020HANSARDOnline Harms: Intimate ImagesAt Report in the Commons, as my noble friend probably realises, the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Office set out the Government’s position in relation to…28 Oct 2020HANSARDOnline Harms: Intimate ImagesEducation is absolutely key to this, which is why there is a new review into how we educate young people in the use of social media now and in the future, as things change. I am…28 Oct 2020HANSARDOnline Harms: Intimate ImagesThe Government absolutely agree that it is important to ensure that the criminal law keeps up with the constant changes in technology and the use of social media in all its forms.…28 Oct 2020HANSARDOnline Harms: Intimate ImagesMy Lords, the noble Lord is absolutely right. The first response to the Online Harms White Paper came in February; the second is due at any time and then we intend to take those…28 Oct 2020HANSARDCriminal Procedure and Investigations Act 1996 (Code of Practice) Order 2020My Lords, the purpose of this order is to bring into force a revised code of practice under the Criminal Procedure and Investigations Act 1996. The revised code will replace the…22 Oct 2020HANSARDCriminal Procedure and Investigations Act 1996 (Code of Practice) Order 2020I am grateful to all noble Lords who spoke in this short debate for their comments. I will attempt to answer all of them; if I miss anything, I will look at Hansard and make sure…22 Oct 2020HANSARDCriminal Procedure and Investigations Act 1996 (Code of Practice) Order 2020That the Order laid before the House on 10 September be approved. Relevant document: 27th Report from the Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee22 Oct 2020HANSARDPrisons: RemandThe noble Baroness brings up an important point. I do not have all the details but I am very happy to write to her about what we are doing to alleviate that.21 Oct 2020HANSARDPrisons: RemandThe impact that the SI will have on the BAME groups—as the noble Lord said, they are disproportionately represented in the remand population—has been carefully considered. To this…21 Oct 2020HANSARDPrisons: RemandMy Lords, I think I have said before that these are very difficult times. We have to look after the health and well-being not only of the staff in our prisons but of the…21 Oct 2020HANSARDPrisons: RemandMy noble friend is absolutely right. I thank him for his work with the National Youth Theatre and Music Masters, which does a lot of work with disadvantaged young people. The…21 Oct 2020