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HANSARDOnline Safety BillI suggested that we might see a table, independent of the meetings, although I am sure they could coincide. Would it be possible to have a table of all the criminal offences that…16 May 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillThis has been a very good debate indeed. I have good days and bad days in Committee. Good days are when I feel that the Bill is going to make a difference and things are going to…16 May 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillIs it two to five?16 May 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords, Amendment 56 proposes a pathway towards setting up an independent ombudsman for the social media space. It is in my name, and I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord…16 May 2023HANSARDOnline Safety Bill16 May 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords, it is a pity that we have not had the benefit of hearing from the Minister, because a lot of his amendments in this group seem to bear on some of the more generic points…16 May 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillI am very sorry that I did not realise that the Minister was responding to this group of amendments; I should have welcomed him to his first appearance in Committee. I hope he…16 May 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillThis is getting worse and worse. I am tempted to suggest that we stop talking about this and try to, in a smaller group, bottom out what we are doing. I really think that the…16 May 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords, I thank the Minister for his very clear and precise introduction of these amendments. As the noble Lord, Lord Clement-Jones, said, we will return to some of the…11 May 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillIt is the simple requests that always seem to evade the easy solutions. I will not go back over the very good introductory speech from the noble Baroness, which said it all; the…11 May 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillBecause of the importance of that point in relation to what the Minister is about to say, we should be clear about this point: is he ruling out the ability to prioritise the needs…09 May 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillSeveral times in the Bill—but this is a clear example—the drafters have chosen to impose a different sequence of words from that which exists in statute. The obvious one here is…09 May 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillThe noble Lord made that point before, and I was going to pick him up on it. It really is not right to classify our legislation by whether it came through in a short or long…09 May 2023HANSARDOnline Safety Bill09 May 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords, I have slightly abused my position because, as the noble Baroness has just said, this is a rather oddly constructed group. My amendments, which carve great chunks out of…09 May 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillLawyers—don’t you love them? How on earth are we supposed to unscramble that at this time of night? It was good to have my kinsman, the noble and learned Lord, Lord Hope, back in…09 May 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillIt is so complicated that the Minister is almost enticing me to stand up and ask about it. Let us just get that right: the reference to the Article 8 powers exists and applies to…09 May 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillIt is late at night and this is slightly tedious, but in the worst of all possible circumstances, Ofcom would be looking at what happened over the last year in relation to its…09 May 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillThat is the point I was making.09 May 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillI understand the Minister’s response, and I accept that there is a parallel stream of work that may well address this. However, we have been waiting for the report from the group…02 May 2023