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HANSARDOnline Safety BillIt has to meet minimum standards of accuracy and must have privacy safeguards in place. The clause talks about those in a positive sense, which sets out the expectation. I am…06 Sept 2023HANSARDOnline Safety Bill06 Sept 2023HANSARDOnline Safety Bill06 Sept 2023HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration BillMy Lords, I will speak to this group of amendments as Minister for Heritage. I will speak first to Amendments 202A and 202B, which regard building preservation notices. His…06 Sept 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillThat the Bill do now pass.06 Sept 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords, I will make a brief statement on the devolution status of the Bill. I am pleased to inform your Lordships’ House that both the Scottish Parliament and Senedd Cymru have…06 Sept 2023HANSARDOnline Safety Bill06 Sept 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords, His Majesty’s Government have listened carefully to the views expressed in Committee and on Report and have tabled amendments to the Bill to address concerns raised by…06 Sept 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords, let me first address the points made by the noble Lord, Lord Rooker. I am afraid that, like my noble friend Lady Stowell of Beeston, I was not aware of the report of…06 Sept 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords, in begging to move that the Bill do now pass, I add my words of thanks to all noble Lords who have been involved over many years and many iterations of the Bill,…06 Sept 2023HANSARDOnline Safety Bill06 Sept 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillThe committee will have a reply from me before it meets tomorrow. Again, I apologise. It should not be up to the committee to let the Minister know; I ought to have known about…06 Sept 2023HANSARDOnline Safety Bill06 Sept 2023HANSARDOnline Safety Bill06 Sept 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillYes, even if the content is not harmful. We keep saying “content” because it is the way the content is disseminated, as the Bill sets out, but the features and functionalities can…19 Jul 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords, this is not just a content Bill. The Government have always been clear that the way in which a service is designed and operated, including its features and…19 Jul 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillThis is the philosophical question on which we still disagree. Features and functionality can be harmful but, to manifest that harm, there must be some content which they are…19 Jul 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillYes, because the cumulative harm—the accumulation of marshmallows in that example—has been addressed. Noble Lords should also be aware that the drafting of Amendment 281FA has the…19 Jul 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillI am grateful to noble Lords for their warm support and for heeding the advice of the noble Lord, Lord Stevenson, on brevity. We must finish our Report today. The noble Lord, Lord…19 Jul 2023HANSARDOnline Safety Bill19 Jul 2023