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HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Ninth sitting)I beg to move amendment 86, in clause 50, page 47, line 3, after “material” insert— “or special interest news material”.14 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Ninth sitting)No, I will let that particular weed die in the bed. I beg to ask leave to withdraw the amendment. Amendment, by leave, withdrawn . Question proposed, That the clause stand part of…14 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Ninth sitting)I am intrigued, as I am sure viewers will be. What is the new information that has come forward since December that has resulted in the Minister believing that he must stick with…14 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Ninth sitting)I beg to move amendment 84, in clause 40, page 38, line 5, leave out subsection (a). This amendment would remove the ability of the Secretary of State to modify Ofcom codes of…14 Jun 2022HANSARD Channel 4 PrivatisationI beg your pardon. I try to avoid that, Madam Deputy Speaker. Now is the chance for Conservative Back Benchers to join us on this side of the House in the mainstream. Please stand…14 Jun 2022HANSARD Channel 4 PrivatisationAs other hon. Members have already explained, Channel 4 is making record profits. Since the system seems to be working so well, I do not see the point of breaking it.14 Jun 2022HANSARD Channel 4 PrivatisationThe hon. Gentleman is shaking his head. Feel free to intervene, rather than groan in agony. Apparently he cannot marshal the words to match his facial expressions. Millions of…14 Jun 2022HANSARD Channel 4 PrivatisationLater—let me make some progress. Until then, we have little choice but to combat the collection of semi-arguments, half-heard bar-room prejudices, factual errors and outright…14 Jun 2022HANSARD Channel 4 PrivatisationThank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. I did not expect the Secretary of State to leave quite so quickly. It is good to see so many unfamiliar faces on the Tory Back Benches—Members…14 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Tenth sitting)I do, of course, agree. As anyone who has suffered with someone in their family committing suicide knows, it has a lifelong family effect. It is yet another amendment where I feel…14 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Ninth sitting)Amendment 84 is very simple: it removes one sentence— “for reasons of public policy”. Of all the correspondence that I have had on the Bill—there has been quite a lot—this is the…14 Jun 2022HANSARD Channel 4 PrivatisationIt is making plenty of programmes. In fact, the Secretary of State already said that so many production companies are being successful that they cannot keep up with the current…14 Jun 2022HANSARDTransgender Conversion TherapyIndeed, because some of these sordid people, as my honourable friend will know, rape those who are sent to their so-called care, in order to “cure” them of their sexual…13 Jun 2022HANSARDTransgender Conversion TherapyDoes my hon. Friend recognise that one of the consequences is the fact that the international conference Safe To Be Me, which the UK Government trumpeted so keenly, has been…13 Jun 2022HANSARDTransgender Conversion TherapyI filmed a conversion therapy once for a BBC documentary —I was a journalist before I became an MP—and that was when I first encountered a conversion therapist. He advertised…13 Jun 2022HANSARDTransgender Conversion TherapyThere seems to be a bit of confusion about exactly what this so-called “therapy” entails. It is perhaps worth saying that these coercive and “abhorrent practices” do not work. By…13 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Eighth sitting)I totally agree with the points that the hon. Lady is making. Does she agree that the way in which the Bill is structured means that illegal acts that are not designated as…09 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Eighth sitting)I speak with some experience of this issue, because I had a constituent who was a pensioner and who was scammed of £20,000—her life savings. Does my hon. Friend realise that it is…09 Jun 2022HANSARDChannel 4 PrivatisationWell, here we go again: a Secretary of State, oblivious to the unanimous opposition of the sector, is ploughing on with a politically motivated privatisation. She knew so little…27 Apr 2022HANSARD Online Safety BillYes, and I shall return to that point later in my speech. The Secretary of State’s powers in the Bill need to be addressed. From interested charities to the chief executive of…19 Apr 2022