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HANSARD Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme: Covid-19I understand exactly the point that the hon. Gentleman is making. Would he agree that the best gift that we could give to the anti-vaxxers would be to allow them to say that…06 Sept 2022HANSARD Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme: Covid-19Before my hon. Friend moves off international comparisons, can I ask her about the Canadian and Australian schemes that I mentioned? I take her point about COVAX providing full…06 Sept 2022HANSARD Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme: Covid-19I am grateful to my hon. Friend for her forbearance. On the point she has just made, it is true, of course, that people have access to the benefits system. However, as I said…06 Sept 2022HANSARD Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme: Covid-19It simply falls to me to thank everyone who has participated in the debate. I hope that the Minister has a sense of the degree of consensus about the need to look again at the…06 Sept 2022HANSARD Online Safety BillI shall speak to the amendments in my name and the names of other right hon. and hon. Members, to whom I am grateful for their support. I am also grateful to the organisations…12 Jul 2022HANSARD Online Safety BillYes, that is a possible way forward. Ofcom will need to produce a code of practice in this area. I am sure my hon. Friend on the Front Bench will say that that is a suitable way…12 Jul 2022HANSARD Online Safety BillWhat the hon. and learned Lady says is sensible, but does she accept—this is a point the Minister made earlier—that, at the moment, the platforms have almost unfettered control…12 Jul 2022HANSARD Online Safety BillI think it is extraordinarily important that this Bill does what the hon. Member for Worsley and Eccles South (Barbara Keeley) has just described. As the Bill moves from this…12 Jul 2022HANSARD Online Safety BillYes, I agree with my hon. Friend about that. I hope it is some comfort to the hon. Member for Worsley and Eccles South when I say that if the House does not support her amendment,…12 Jul 2022HANSARD Online Safety BillYes, I am grateful to the hon. Lady for that useful addition to this debate, but it tends to clarify the point I was seeking to clarify, which is whether or not what the right…12 Jul 2022HANSARD Online Safety BillI follow that point. I will channel, with some effort, the hon. Member for Birmingham, Yardley (Jess Phillips), who I suspect would say that these things are already up for debate…12 Jul 2022HANSARD Online Safety BillI warmly welcome my hon. Friend to his position. He will understand that those of us who have followed the Bill in some detail since its inception had some nervousness as to who…12 Jul 2022HANSARD Online Safety BillI agree that there is scope for more to be done to enable those in academia and in broader civil society to understand more clearly what the harm landscape looks like. Does my…12 Jul 2022HANSARD Adviser on Ministerial InterestsI happen to agree with the right hon. Lady that there should not be a long gap before the appointment of a new independent adviser, but let me put something else to her. Two weeks…21 Jun 2022HANSARD National Security BillI am extremely grateful to my right hon. Friend; I know she wants to move on from this subject and there are other things to speak about, but on the point she makes about further…06 Jun 2022HANSARD National Security BillIt is a pleasure to follow my fellow new member of the Intelligence and Security Committee, the hon. Member for Garston and Halewood (Maria Eagle). I agree with what she said and…06 Jun 2022HANSARD National Security BillAs I say, I can understand the logic of the Government’s position when it comes to the restriction or even non-payment of damages in civil cases where the court believes that…06 Jun 2022HANSARD National Security BillWill the Minister give way?06 Jun 2022HANSARD National Security BillAs my right hon. Friend knows, I think there is no dispute across the House that some protection should be available for individuals in those circumstances. The question we have…06 Jun 2022HANSARDChannel 4 PrivatisationMy hon. Friend was right, of course, to say that previous Secretaries of State have considered the privatisation of Channel 4, but she will also recognise that not all of us were…27 Apr 2022