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HANSARDOnline Safety Bill06 Jul 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillI am grateful to noble Lords for their contributions during this debate. I am sympathetic to arguments that we must avoid imposing disproportionate burdens on regulated services,…06 Jul 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillI would just like to finish my thought on Wikipedia. Noble Lords are right to mention it and to highlight the great work that it does. My honourable friend the Minister for…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 BillDoes my noble friend wish to do that and direct it at children?06 Jul 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords, as noble Lords will be aware, the Government removed the legal but harmful provisions from the Bill in another place, given concerns about freedom of expression. I know…06 Jul 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillThat the amendments for the Report stage be marshalled and considered in the following order: Clause 1, Clauses 162 to 172, Schedule 14, Clauses 2 and 3, Schedules 1 and 2,…04 Jul 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords, the Government are supportive of improving data sharing and encouraging greater collaboration between companies and researchers, subject to the appropriate safeguards.…22 Jun 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillI thank the noble Lord. The term “blocking” is used to describe measures that will significantly impede or restrict access to non-compliant services—for example, internet service…22 Jun 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillThe Law Commission recommended that the consent, but not the personal consent, of the Director of Public Prosecutions should be required. We believe, however, that, because the…22 Jun 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillYes, we will ensure that, in looking at this in the context of Scots law, we have the opportunity to see what is being done there and that we are satisfied that all the scenarios…22 Jun 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillYes; he made a helpful point, and I will come back on it.22 Jun 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillWhen I saw the noble Lord, Lord Foster of Bath, and the noble Baroness, Lady Armstrong of Hill Top, in their places, I wondered whether they were intending to raise these points.…22 Jun 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords, this has been a broad and mixed group of amendments. I will be moving the amendments in my name, which are part of it. These introduce the new offence of encouraging or…22 Jun 2023HANSARDOnline Safety Bill22 Jun 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords, where necessary, the regulator will be able to apply to the courts for business disruption measures. These are court orders which will require third-party ancillary…22 Jun 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillIf I may, I will take advice on that and write to the noble Lord.22 Jun 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillWe will know once Ofcom has completed its research and examination of these complex issues; we would not want to pre-judge its conclusions.22 Jun 2023