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HANSARDOnline Safety BillAnd on Schedule 12?17 Jul 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillBefore the Minister sits down—he has been extremely generous in taking interventions—I want to put on record my understanding of his slightly ambiguous response to Amendment 247A,…17 Jul 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords, the Government have moved on this issue, and I very much welcome that. I am grateful to the Minister for listening and for the fact that we now have Section 11 of the…17 Jul 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords, I will start with the final point of the noble Lord, Lord Clement-Jones. I remind him that, beyond the world of the smartphone, there is a small company called Microsoft…17 Jul 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Clement-Jones, for raising this; it is important. Clause 49(3)(a)(i) mentions content “generated directly on the service by a…12 Jul 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords, from this side we certainly welcome these government amendments. I felt it was probably churlish to ask why it had taken until this late stage to comply with…12 Jul 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords, first, I associate myself with the excellent way in which the noble Baroness, Lady Harding, paid tribute to the work of the noble Baroness, Lady Kidron, on behalf of…10 Jul 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords, as we have heard, this is a small group of amendments concerned with preventing size and lack of capacity being used as a reasonable excuse for allowing children to be…10 Jul 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillBefore the Minister succeeds in disappointing us, can he clarify something for us? Once Ofcom has published the report, it has the power to issue guidance. What requirement is…22 Jun 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords, my noble friend Lord Stevenson, who tabled this amendment, unfortunately cannot be with us today as he is off somewhere drinking sherry, I hope. This is an important set…22 Jun 2023HANSARDOnline Safety Bill22 Jun 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords, that was a bravura performance by the noble Lord, Lord Lexden. We thank him. To those listening in the Public Gallery, I should say that we debated most of those; it was…22 Jun 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords, I am grateful to everyone for that interesting and quick debate. It is occasionally one’s lot that somebody else tables an amendment but is unavoidably detained in…22 Jun 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillThe fact that I labelled it as being AI-generated helped your Lordships to understand, and the transparency eases the debate. I beg to move.22 Jun 2023HANSARDOnline Safety Bill22 Jun 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords, this was a short but important debate with some interesting exchanges at the end. The noble Baroness, Lady Harding, mentioned the rapidly changing environment generated…22 Jun 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords, I am all that is left between us and hearing from the Minister with his good news, so I will constrain my comments accordingly. The noble Baroness, Lady Kidron, begin by…22 Jun 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords, what more can I say than that I wish to be associated with the comments made by the noble Baroness and then by the noble Lord, Lord Clement-Jones? I look forward to the…22 Jun 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillI do not have an invisible earpiece feeding me my lines—that was all human-generated. I beg leave to withdraw the amendment.22 Jun 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords, that was a good, quick debate and an opportunity for the noble Viscount to put some things on the record, and explain some others, which is helpful. It is always good to…25 May 2023