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HANSARDBroadcasting White PaperOur TV and radio industry is the envy of the world. Production studios across the country are booming, and British-made shows like “I May Destroy You” and the “Great British Bake…28 Apr 2022HANSARDMedia Policy UpdateThe Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has today written to Newsquest Media Group and Archant Community Media, to inform them that I am “minded to” issue an…26 Apr 2022HANSARD Online Safety BillThey will. Inciting people to take their own life or encouraging eating disorders in anorexia chatrooms—all these issues are covered by the Bill.19 Apr 2022HANSARD Online Safety BillI will take one more intervention.19 Apr 2022HANSARD Online Safety BillI beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time. Given the time and the number of people indicating that they wish to speak, and given that we will have my speech, the…19 Apr 2022HANSARD Online Safety BillI am going to whizz through my speech now in order to allow people who have stayed and want to speak to do so. As the Minister for mental health for two years, too often, I heard…19 Apr 2022HANSARD Online Safety BillYes. Exactly those issues will be listed in secondary legislation, under “legal but harmful”. I will talk about that further in my speech, but “legal but harmful” focuses on some…19 Apr 2022HANSARD Online Safety BillSir David was a friend to all of us, and he was very much at the forefront of my mind during the redrafting of this Bill over the last few months. I give my right hon. Friend my…19 Apr 2022HANSARD Online Safety BillI will take one more intervention, but that is it.19 Apr 2022HANSARD Online Safety BillWe have already done that—it is already in the Bill.19 Apr 2022HANSARD Online Safety BillThe duties are mandatory; it is the Online Safety Bill and the metaverse is included in the Bill. Not only is it included, but, moving forward, the provisions in the Bill will…19 Apr 2022HANSARD Online Safety BillNo, I have to continue. Not only will the Bill protect journalistic content, democratic content and democratic free speech, but if one of the tech companies wanted to take down…19 Apr 2022HANSARD Online Safety BillThese online giants will be held accountable to their own terms and conditions. They will be unable any longer to allow illegal content to be published, and we will also be…19 Apr 2022HANSARD Online Safety BillI will take just two more interventions and that will be it, otherwise people will not have a chance to speak.19 Apr 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsAnd we wish them well with that. There are certain principles that apply to Chelsea within the Department and with myself. We applied the sanctions to Roman Abramovich, and…24 Mar 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsWe ruled out wider legislation in statute, but a Joint Committee to undertake post-legislative scrutiny of the Online Safety Bill would be established by a Standing Order and is…24 Mar 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsThere were a number of questions there. We are working with the Department for Transport and trying to ameliorate that situation. It is an FA decision, so we are also discussing…24 Mar 2022HANSARDGigabit BroadbandWe are delivering the biggest broadband upgrade in UK history. National gigabit broadband coverage has rocketed from 6% to 66% in the past three years. Over 80 different companies…24 Mar 2022HANSARDChannel 5I will—I congratulate and applaud them. My hon. Friend was there on Channel 5’s opening night, and so were the Spice Girls. Some of us in this House are old enough to remember…24 Mar 2022HANSARDGigabit BroadbandWe were never going to go from 0% to 100% overnight. It has always been a roll-out programme. It is a huge infrastructure investment project, and it is not possible for network…24 Mar 2022