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HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Fourteenth sitting)I want to talk about a specific example. Perhaps the Minister will be able to explain why the legislation is written this way around when I would have written it the opposite way…21 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Fourteenth sitting)I was aware that Strava did that mapping, which is why my friends list on Strava numbers about two people, but I was not aware that it had been publicly displayed. There are…21 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Fourteenth sitting)The Minister will get the chance to make a proper speech in which he can respond. It could be that the process is different from the one I see from reading the Bill. The…21 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Fourteenth sitting)I am sorry to try the Minister’s patience. I think that we are in quite a lot of agreement about what an eligible entity looks like. I appreciate that this is being done by the…21 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Fourteenth sitting)The Minister said “a present threat”, but the clause says “present a threat”. The two mean different things. To clarify, could he confirm that he means “present a threat”?21 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Fourteenth sitting)I have a question about subsection (4)(b), which says that the guidance can be replaced more frequently than once every three years. I understand subsection (4)(a)—that is…21 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Fourteenth sitting)I appreciate the support from the Opposition in relation to amendment 153. I want to talk about amendment 153, but also about some of the issues there are with clauses 140 and…21 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Thirteenth sitting)I am glad the Minister confirms that he expects that that would be the case. I am clearer now that he has explained it, but on my reading of the clause, the definitions of…21 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Fourteenth sitting)I wonder whether the hon. Gentleman would consider a belt and braces approach as the best way forward? We could have it in the Bill and have the other legislation, in order that…21 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Fourteenth sitting)Will the Minister give way?21 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Fourteenth sitting)Sorry, I phrased that quite badly. My point was more about having to justify things—having to say, “Look, we are sorry; we haven’t managed to do this in the time in which we were…21 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Fourteenth sitting)I would like to make a couple of comments. The shadow Minister mentioned education and prevention projects, which are key. In Scotland, our kids’ sex, health and relationship…21 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Thirteenth sitting)I beg to move amendment 77, in clause 140, page 121, line 9, leave out subsection (2). This amendment removes the tests that complaints have to be of particular importance in…21 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Thirteenth sitting)I welcome the Minister’s fairly explicit explanation that he believes that every category 1 company would be in scope, even if there was a complaint against one single provider. I…21 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Thirteenth sitting)I thank the Minister for the clarification. Given that he has explicitly said that he expects that groups acting on behalf of consumers could, if they fulfil the other criteria,…21 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Thirteenth sitting)Will the Minister explicitly say that he thinks that an eligible entity, acting on behalf of consumers, could, if it fulfils the other criteria, bring a super-complaint?21 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Thirteenth sitting)The Committee has been flexible about grouping clauses should it make sense to do so. I ask that the Committee allow me to speak to this set of amendments alone. It does not make…21 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Thirteenth sitting)I beg to move amendment 143, in clause 140, page 121, line 1, after “services” insert “, consumers”.21 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Thirteenth sitting)I want to briefly agree with the sentiments of the Opposition Front Bench, especially about the strength of the committee and the lack of teeth that it currently has. Given that…21 Jun 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Thirteenth sitting)Apologies, Ms Rees, for coming in a bit late on this, but I was not aware of the intention to vote against the clause. I want to make clear what the Scottish National party…21 Jun 2022