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HANSARDData Protection and Digital Information BillMy Lords, if the Committee will indulge me, I was a little late arriving for the introduction to this group of amendments by my noble friend Lord Lucas, but I heard most of what…22 Apr 2024HANSARDDigital Markets, Competition and Consumers BillCan I ask a question as well, to save the Minister from getting up several times? I do not think that he said anything about broadcasting. Where is the department on reviewing…26 Mar 2024HANSARDDigital Markets, Competition and Consumers BillMy Lords, I thank my noble friend and his officials for the time and attention they have given this matter since Report. I know that officials have worked very hard, including…26 Mar 2024HANSARDDigital Markets, Competition and Consumers BillI hesitate to rise, because I realise I am probably testing the patience of the House, having already spoken in Third Reading. I just wanted to say a couple of things. I thank my…26 Mar 2024HANSARDData Protection and Digital Information BillMy Lords, I rise briefly to support the amendments in the name of my noble friend Lady Harding and the others in this group. She has comprehensively explained their importance;…25 Mar 2024HANSARDArtificial Intelligence (Regulation) Bill [HL]My Lords, it is a great pleasure to follow the noble and learned Lord, Lord Thomas, and his interesting speech. I remind noble Lords that the Communications and Digital Committee,…22 Mar 2024HANSARDDigital Markets, Competition and Consumers BillMy Lords, I will also speak to the consequential Amendment 158 in my name. I thank noble Lords who have signed my amendment: my noble friend Lord Forsyth and the noble Lords, Lord…13 Mar 2024HANSARDDigital Markets, Competition and Consumers BillMy Lords, I am very grateful to all noble Lords who have spoken for their support and for the powerful speeches that they have given, and I am very grateful to my noble friend for…13 Mar 2024HANSARDDigital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill13 Mar 2024HANSARDDigital Markets, Competition and Consumers BillNow that my friend the noble Lord, Lord Faulks, has spoken, I am happy to stand, because I hoped that he would cover all the technical aspects of his amendment, to which I have…11 Mar 2024HANSARDDigital Markets, Competition and Consumers BillI am grateful to my noble friend for giving way—I hope he will forgive me for interrupting him at a critical moment as he was about to say something about another of my…11 Mar 2024HANSARDDigital Markets, Competition and Consumers BillMy Lords, I assure noble Lords that, having spoken at length in the first group, I will be very brief in this group, not least because my noble friend Lord Black has made my…11 Mar 2024HANSARDMedia BillI am grateful to the noble Lord, and I say to my noble friend on the Front Bench that we are still on an advisory speaking time. The noble Lord made a very important point about…28 Feb 2024HANSARDMedia BillMy Lords, it is a great pleasure to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Foster. I will come to my noble friend Lord Forsyth’s amendment and the important issue it raises in a moment.…28 Feb 2024HANSARDMedia BillI am grateful for what my noble friend has just said, but am I to take it from what he said to the noble Lord, Lord Bassam, that the DCMS is not going to engage in this matter at…28 Feb 2024HANSARDDigital Exclusion (Communications and Digital Committee Report)My Lords, I am very grateful to my noble friend the Minister. I have not envied him this afternoon, knowing that he would have to respond to a series of quite hard-hitting and…08 Feb 2024HANSARDDigital Exclusion (Communications and Digital Committee Report)To move that this House takes note of the Report from the Communications and Digital Committee Digital exclusion (3rd Report, Session 2022-23, HL Paper 219).08 Feb 2024HANSARDDigital Exclusion (Communications and Digital Committee Report)My Lords, it is a great privilege to open this debate, just as it is a privilege to chair the Communications and Digital Committee of your Lordships’ House. I am hugely grateful…08 Feb 2024HANSARDDigital Markets, Competition and Consumers BillI have not been involved in Part 4 of the Bill and the Communications and Digital Select Committee did not include it in the work that we did to study the Bill last year, so I…07 Feb 2024HANSARDTelegraph Media Group: Proposed Sale to RedBird IMIMy Lords, as the noble Lord, Lord Bassam, alluded to, the strength of feeling against this deal in the House of Commons yesterday was widespread and from all quarters of that…31 Jan 2024