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HANSARDOnline Safety Act 2023: Codes of PracticeThe harms of viral harmful content do not end online. They can spill into our streets and destabilise communities. Recent incidents—including the disorder following the Southport…18 Jun 2026 · 2d agoHANSARD Cyber Security and Resilience (Network and Information Systems) BillI start by echoing the thoughts of many Members from across the House, particularly my hon. Friends the Members for Leeds Central and Headingley (Alex Sobel) and for Cowdenbeath…16 Jun 2026 · 4d agoHANSARD Cyber Security and Resilience (Network and Information Systems) BillI am going to make some progress but will try to come back to the Chair of the Select Committee shortly. The Government’s cyber action plan is the overarching strategy to raise…16 Jun 2026 · 4d agoHANSARD Cyber Security and Resilience (Network and Information Systems) BillI am happy to the write to the Chair of the Select Committee about comparisons with the EU, but the broad thrust is that we have undertaken a specific analysis of whether the…16 Jun 2026 · 4d agoHANSARD Cyber Security and Resilience (Network and Information Systems) BillIt is rare for me to have a point of divergence with the Chair of the Select Committee, given her experience and expertise. However, on that question I am absolutely not saying…16 Jun 2026 · 4d agoHANSARD Cyber Security and Resilience (Network and Information Systems) BillI will make some further progress. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Leeds Central and Headingley for his amendment relating to AI emergencies. I recognise his concerns, as…16 Jun 2026 · 4d agoHANSARD Cyber Security and Resilience (Network and Information Systems) BillI will give way to my hon. Friend the Member for Leeds Central and Headingley in the first instance and then to my hon. Friend the Member for Dunfermline and Dollar.16 Jun 2026 · 4d agoHANSARD Cyber Security and Resilience (Network and Information Systems) BillI would be delighted to.16 Jun 2026 · 4d agoHANSARD Cyber Security and Resilience (Network and Information Systems) BillGiven the specificity of his question, I will suggest that I come back to my hon. Friend. The broad thrust is that through our investment control legislation and procurement…16 Jun 2026 · 4d agoHANSARD Cyber Security and Resilience (Network and Information Systems) BillThe hon. and learned Gentleman will be aware from a response I recently gave him that both the complexity of the EU’s AI Act and its interaction with the Windsor framework are…16 Jun 2026 · 4d agoHANSARD Cyber Security and Resilience (Network and Information Systems) BillAs I say, I agree with much of the right hon. Gentleman’s diagnosis. Let me state in more detail the reasons for objecting on the mechanism. First, the provisions for information…16 Jun 2026 · 4d agoHANSARD Cyber Security and Resilience (Network and Information Systems) BillI will not, because I am testing the patience of Madam Deputy Speaker— [ Interruption. ] With your permission, Madam Deputy Speaker, I will give way.16 Jun 2026 · 4d agoHANSARD Cyber Security and Resilience (Network and Information Systems) BillAs ever, I would be delighted to work with the Chair of the Select Committee on a range of technology questions, including this one. I am delighted with the support that this…16 Jun 2026 · 4d agoHANSARD Cyber Security and Resilience (Network and Information Systems) BillI can confirm that the Government will be very happy to engage on this question further with my hon. Friend and the right hon. Member for Chingford and Woodford Green (Sir Iain…16 Jun 2026 · 4d agoHANSARD Cyber Security and Resilience (Network and Information Systems) BillI beg to move, That the Bill be now read the Third time. It has been a privilege to take this vital piece of legislation through the House. I thank everyone who has played a role…16 Jun 2026 · 4d agoHANSARDDigital and Technologies Sector PlanI am repeating the following written ministerial statement made today in the other place by my noble Friend, the Minister of State for Science, Innovation, Research and Nuclear,…10 Jun 2026HANSARDDigital Safety: ChildrenI was visiting young people and families in Leith in Scotland just a few weeks ago. The thing I heard about more than anything else was the scale of harm that young people in…08 Jun 2026HANSARDDigital Safety: ChildrenI wholeheartedly agree with my hon. Friend, who has been another remarkable champion: she has engaged with people in her community and represented those voices to me. We will…08 Jun 2026HANSARDDigital Safety: ChildrenI first point out that in government, the Conservatives took seven years to pass a Bill and then found that law to be inadequate. That is why they are proposing all the things…08 Jun 2026HANSARDDigital Safety: ChildrenOne of the big lessons of the Australian experience and beyond is that policy in this context is about not just short-term impact, but long-term norms. We will achieve that impact…08 Jun 2026