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HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Seventh sitting)I thank the hon. Lady for her clarificatory question. I can confirm that in order to be a user of a service, she would not necessarily have to sign up to it. The simple act of…09 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Seventh sitting)Let me try to address some of the questions that have been raised in this short debate, starting with the question that the hon. Member for Aberdeen North quite rightly asked at…09 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Seventh sitting)I do my best. Clauses 17 and 27 have similar effects, the former applying to user-to-user services and the latter to search services. They set out an obligation on the companies…09 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Seventh sitting)Good morning, Ms Rees. It is a pleasure to serve once again under your chairmanship. I wondered whether the shadow Minister, the hon. Member for Pontypridd, wanted to speak…09 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Eighth sitting)There are a number of steps to go through. Regardless of how well resourced Ofcom is and how fast it works, first, we have to designate the priority categories by secondary…09 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Eighth sitting)I will do my best to make sure that we come to it very quickly indeed, by being concise in my replies on this group of amendments. On amendment 48, which seeks to get Ofcom to…09 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Seventh sitting)I was about to sit down, but of course I will give way.09 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Seventh sitting)The third line of defence—the super-complaint process—is available immediately, as I set out a moment ago. In relation to new clause 1, which the hon. Lady mentioned a moment ago,…09 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Seventh sitting)The shadow Minister has eloquently introduced the purpose and effect of the clause, so I shall not repeat what she has said. On her point about publication, I repeat the point…09 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Seventh sitting)At the moment, there is no legal obligation to do anything about it, which is precisely why this Bill is needed, but let us put it to the test. Question put and agreed to. Clause…09 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Eighth sitting)I thank the hon. Member for Aberdeen North for her latter remarks. We made an important addition to the Bill after listening to parliamentarians across the House and to the Joint…09 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Seventh sitting)There is in clause 17(2) “a duty to operate a service that allows users and affected persons to easily report content which they consider to be content of a…kind specified below”,…09 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Eighth sitting)The shadow Minister raises important issues to do with animal cruelty. The whole House and our constituents feel extremely strongly about this issue, as we know. She set out some…09 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Eighth sitting)The hon. Lady is perfectly entitled to press to a vote whatever amendments she sees fit, but in relation to amendments 24 and 25, the words she asks for, “where the UK is a target…09 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Eighth sitting)Clearly, and as Members have pointed out, women and girls suffer disproportionately from abuse online; unfortunately, tragically and disgracefully, they are disproportionately…09 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Eighth sitting)My right hon. Friend makes an interesting point. To avoid answering a complicated question off the cuff, perhaps I should write to her. However, I certainly see no prohibition in…09 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Eighth sitting)The hon. Lady’s use of the word “fundraise” implies that Ofcom will be going around with a collection tin on a voluntary basis.09 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Eighth sitting)As we have heard already, these clauses are very important because they protect people from online fraudulent advertisements for the first time—something that the whole House…09 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Eighth sitting)When the sitting was suspended for lunch, I was concluding my remarks and saying that where children are the victim of illegal activity or illegal content, all of that is covered…09 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Seventh sitting)Colleagues have spoken eloquently to the purpose and effect of the various clauses and schedule 3 —the stand part component of this group. On schedule 3, the shadow Minister, the…09 Jun 2022