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HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords, I am pleased to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Morgan of Coates, and her amendment, which tries to help parliamentary counsel draft better regulations later on. I am…19 Jul 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords, we have not talked much about fees in our consideration of the Bill, and I will not talk much about them today, but there are some important questions. We should not…19 Jul 2023HANSARDNuclear Test VeteransMy Lords, further to the Minister’s exchanges with the noble Lord, Lord Watson, will she clarify that the Government believe that nuclear test veterans have an absolute right to…18 Jul 2023HANSARDUltra-processed FoodMy Lords, as the Online Safety Bill works its way through this House, we see how interventionist the Government can be in the interests of public health and well-being when they…18 Jul 2023HANSARDHealth: Cardiac ArrestMy Lords, building on the comments made by the noble Baroness, Lady Finlay, about the importance of defibrillators, the Minister may be aware of a database called the Circuit,…17 Jul 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords, I will make some arguments in favour of Amendment 191A, in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady Kidron, and inject some notes of caution around Amendment 186A. On…17 Jul 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillI am certainly aware that it is there but, again, the noble Lord has just made the point himself: this supplements it. The intent of the amendment is to give consumers more rights…17 Jul 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords, Amendment 247B in my name was triggered by government Amendment 247A, which the Minister just introduced. I want to explain it, because the government amendment is quite…17 Jul 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillI am grateful to the Minister. That was helpful, particularly the description of the process and the fact that drafts have to be issued early on. However, it still leaves open a…17 Jul 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillJust on the timescale, one of the issues that we talked about in Committee was the fact that there needs to be some kind of mechanism created, with a code of practice with…17 Jul 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords, I will add to my noble friend’s call for us to consider whether Clause 158 should be struck from the Bill as an unnecessary power for the Secretary of State to take. We…17 Jul 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillWe established in our last debate that the notion of a recognised news publisher will go much broader than a broadcaster. I put it to the Minister that we could end up in an…17 Jul 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords, we are coming to some critical amendments on a very important issue relatively late in the Bill, having had relatively little discussion on it. It is not often that…17 Jul 2023HANSARDOnline Safety Bill17 Jul 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Moylan, and the noble Baroness, Lady Fox, have a very strong point to make with this amendment. I have tried in our discussions to bring some colour…17 Jul 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords, I remain concerned that people who use more choice words of Anglo-Saxon origin will find their speech more restricted than those who use more Latinate words, such as…17 Jul 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords, I will make a brief contribution because I was the misery guts when this was proposed first time round. I congratulate the noble Baroness, Lady Harding, not just on…17 Jul 2023HANSARDNational Health Service (Performers Lists) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2023My Lords, we welcome the debate as an opportunity to look at some of the challenges around the number of GPs, dentists, optometrists and other primary care workers that we have…13 Jul 2023HANSARDCommunity Health Services: Waiting ListsMy Lords, within the published data for wait times in community health services, we see that some people face very long waits for home oxygen assessments, including some waiting…12 Jul 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords, I want to congratulate the noble Baroness, Lady Stowell, on her amendments and to raise some concerns, in particular about Amendment 138. I do this as somebody who has…12 Jul 2023