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HANSARDLoan ChargeFirst, I thank the right hon. Member for East Antrim (Sammy Wilson) for his kind words about my time as postal affairs Minister. My hon. Friend is making the point that this is a…18 Jan 2024HANSARDPost Office Horizon ScandalI thank the Minister and the Lord Chancellor for their work. It has been longer in the making than the drama series, but they met their promise over two days by coming up with the…10 Jan 2024HANSARDHorizon: Compensation and ConvictionsFour hours of compelling storytelling has brought a fresh wave of interest, anger and frustration to people around the country and indeed in this Chamber—it is great to see so…08 Jan 2024HANSARDPost Office (Horizon System) Compensation BillThank you, Madam Deputy Speaker, for giving me the opportunity to ease my way back on to the Back Benches and speak about this issue and a number of others. After nearly four…19 Dec 2023HANSARDPost Office (Horizon System) Compensation BillThe right hon. Gentleman is making a great speech, and he has got to the crux of the situation, by talking about trust. The postmasters have had plenty of words—20 years of…19 Dec 2023HANSARD Violent Crime and Antisocial Behaviour: Carshalton and WallingtonMy hon. Friend is making a powerful speech. We have had the sad news of the fatal stabbing of a 17-year-old boy outside Sutton station, and a 15-year-old was recently killed in…07 Dec 2023HANSARD Sri Lankan Tamils and Human RightsA number of councillors—Councillor Param Nandha and Councillor Jay Ganesh—and Nick Rogers of the London Assembly have pushed local authorities to celebrate Tamil Heritage Month…05 Dec 2023HANSARDAI Safety SummitI am providing the House with an update following the UK’s AI safety summit on 1 and 2 November 2023 at Bletchley Park—the birthplace of computer science. As the Prime Minister…09 Nov 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy hon. Friend absolutely nails it. He said earlier that businesses are already collecting this data. Since I was first involved with the Bill, it has primarily been about getting…12 Sept 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillIndeed, we will not be accepting those amendments, but I will cover more of that later on, after I have listened to the comments that I know my hon. Friend wants to make. As a…12 Sept 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillI beg to move amendment (a) to Lords amendment 182.12 Sept 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillAs we know from proceedings in this place, the Online Safety Bill is incredibly important. I am delighted that it is returning to the Commons in great shape, having gone through…12 Sept 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillI thank my hon. Friend and my hon. Friend the Member for Penistone and Stocksbridge (Miriam Cates) for all their work on this. I hope that this debate will show that we have…12 Sept 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillI thank my right hon. Friend for his work on this, and Baroness Kidron for her work. I will cover that in more detail in a moment, but we remain committed to exploring measures…12 Sept 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillThis is a difficult path to tread in approaching this issue for the first time. In many ways, these are things that we should have done 10 or 15 years ago, as social media…12 Sept 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillThe hon. Lady asks an important question, and that is the essence of what we are doing. We have tried to make this Bill flexible and proportionate. It is not technology specific,…12 Sept 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillUndoubtedly we will have to come back to that point. Not everything needs to be in the Bill at this point. We have industry initiatives, such as Adobe’s content security policy,…12 Sept 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillThe right hon. Lady raises some interesting points. We have conversed about harms, so I totally get her point about making sure that we tackle this issue in Parliament and be…12 Sept 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillI have talked about the fact that we have to keep this legislation under review, because the landscape is fast-moving. At every stage that I have been dealing with this Bill, I…12 Sept 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy hon. Friend makes an important point, and I thank him for the amazing work he has done in getting the Bill to this point and for his ongoing help and support in making sure…12 Sept 2023