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HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Seventeenth sitting)I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time. I drafted this new clause following a number of conversations and debates that we had in Committee about how the Act will be…28 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Seventeenth sitting)On that review function, it would help if the Minister could explain a bit more why it was decided to do that as a one-off, and not on a rolling two-year basis, for example.28 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Seventeenth sitting)The reason the new clause is drafted in that way is because I wanted to recognise the work of the Joint Committee and to take on board its recommendations. If it had been entirely…28 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Seventeenth sitting)Seeing as we are not doing spurious points of order, I will also take the opportunity to express our thanks. The first one is to the Chairs: thank you very much, Ms Rees and Sir…28 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Sixteenth sitting)Thank you for chairing this meeting, Sir Roger. I have a quick question for the Minister that relates to the new clause, which is a reasonable request for a duty on providers to…28 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Sixteenth sitting)I have a couple of comments on the point about parental empowerment. I have been asked by my children for numerous apps. I have a look at them and think, “I don’t know anything…28 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Sixteenth sitting)I just gently say that if there is a requirement for people to sign up or begin to go through the sign-up process in order to see the terms of service, that is not as open and…28 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Sixteenth sitting)I agree entirely on these new clauses. Although the Bill will make things safer, it will do that properly only if supported by proper media literacy and the upskilling of…28 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Sixteenth sitting)I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time. I tabled new clause 17 in relation to protected characteristics because of some of the points made by Danny Stone. I missed…28 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Sixteenth sitting)The Minister has highlighted clauses 23 and 25. Clause 25 is much stronger than clause 23, because clause 23 includes only illegal content and priority illegal content, whereas…28 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Sixteenth sitting)I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time.28 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Sixteenth sitting)My hon. Friend the Member for Ochil and South Perthshire is not present and he had intended to move this new clause. If the Committee does not mind, I will do more reading and…28 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Sixteenth sitting)I do not think the urgency and speed that are needed for these incidents is adequately covered by the Bill, so I would like to push new clause 18 to a vote. Question put, That the…28 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Sixteenth sitting)I have a question for the Minister that hopefully, given the Committee’s work, he might be able to answer. New clause 19(2)(b) would give Ofcom the power to require services to…28 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Sixteenth sitting)I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time. I think you are probably getting fed up with me, Sir Roger, so I will try my best not to speak for too long. The new clause…28 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Sixteenth sitting)Given that clarification, I will not press the new clause. The Minister has made the case strongly enough and has clarified clause 85(1) to my satisfaction. I beg to ask leave to…28 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Fifteenth sitting)I read new clause 3 in conjunction with the starred new clause 44, because it makes sense to consider the funding of the advocacy body, and the benefits of that funding, when…23 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Fifteenth sitting)I absolutely agree. I had not thought about it in those terms, but the hon. Member is right that the new clause gives greater importance to those protected characteristics and…23 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Fifteenth sitting)There have not been all that many times during the debate on the Bill when the Minister has so spectacularly missed the point as he has on this section. I understand everything he…23 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Fifteenth sitting)But it would be a statutory consultee that is specifically mentioned in this provision. I cannot find in the Bill a provision giving Ofcom a statutory duty to consult the four…23 Jun 2022