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HANSARDOnline Safety Bill06 Jul 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillI am grateful to my noble friends Lady Buscombe and Lord Leicester and my noble and learned friend Lord Garnier for the amendments that they have tabled, with which we began this…06 Jul 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords, I am pleased that we are on Report, and I thank all noble Lords who took part in Committee and those with whom I have had the pleasure of discussing issues arising since…06 Jul 2023HANSARDOnline Safety Bill06 Jul 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords, this has been a short but important debate and I am grateful to noble Lords for their broad support for the amendments here and for their questions. These amendments…06 Jul 2023HANSARDOnline Safety Bill06 Jul 2023HANSARDOnline Safety Bill06 Jul 2023HANSARDOnline Safety Bill06 Jul 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords, this has indeed set us on a good course, and I am grateful to noble Lords for their questions and contributions. I apologise to my noble friend Lord Moylan, with whom I…06 Jul 2023HANSARDOnline Safety Bill06 Jul 2023HANSARDOnline Safety Bill06 Jul 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillAs was pointed out by others in the debate, the key provision in Amendment 172 is subsection (2) of the proposed new clause, which relates to: “Content which is abusive and which…06 Jul 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillIf the noble Baroness misspoke, I understood what she intended. I knew what she was getting at. With that, I hope noble Lords will be content not to press their amendments and…06 Jul 2023HANSARDOnline Safety Bill06 Jul 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillIn the amendments, if I can, I will. In the meantime, I reassure my noble friend Lady Morgan of Cotes that, as I said in opening, placing these offences in the Sexual Offences Act…06 Jul 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillI do not think that it is, but it will be helpful to have a debate on categorisation later on Report, when we reach Amendment 245, to probe this further. It is not possible for me…06 Jul 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillPerhaps I was not as clear as I could or should have been. The regulator will set out in guidance the duties that fall on the businesses. We do not want the burden on the business…06 Jul 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillHence Ofcom will make the assessments about categorisation based on that. Maybe I am missing the noble Lord’s point.06 Jul 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillI will check what I said but I hope that I have set out why we have taken the approach that we have with the broad scope and the exemptions and categorisations that are contained…06 Jul 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords, I am grateful for the opportunity to continue some of the themes we touched on in the last group and the debate we have had throughout the passage of the Bill on the…06 Jul 2023