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HANSARDOnline Safety BillI think I probably would agree, but I would welcome a chance to discuss it further. Finally, Amendment 229 intends to probe how Ofcom will review the effectiveness of transparency…25 May 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillAs ever, I thank all noble Lords who have spoken. I absolutely take, accept and embrace the point that transparency is wholly critical to what we are trying to achieve with the…25 May 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillI thank the noble Baroness for her amendment and the noble Lord, Lord Clement-Jones, for speaking so powerfully, as ever. I very much recognise the harms and horrors of cruelty to…25 May 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillI have offered a meeting; I am very happy to host the meeting to bottom out these complaints.16 May 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillI am happy to meet and discuss this. We are expanding what they are able to receive today under the existing arrangements. I am happy to meet any noble Lords who wish to take this…16 May 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillThey would go to the service provider in the first instance and then—16 May 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillConsiderably more rights are provided than they have today, with the service provider. Indeed, Ofcom would not necessarily deal with individual complaints—16 May 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillIt is between two and five years. It can be two; it can be five. I am very happy to meet my noble friend and to carry on doing so. The complaints procedure set up for families is…16 May 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillI stress again that the period in question is two years not three.16 May 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillMy Lords, the amendments in this group are concerned with complaints mechanisms. I turn first to Amendment 56 from the noble Lord, Lord Stevenson of Balmacara, which proposes…16 May 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillI do not know about that last point. I was going to say that I am very happy to meet the noble Lord to discuss it. It seems to me to come down to a matter of timing and the timing…16 May 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillAs I said, we are happy to consider individual complaints and super-complaints further.16 May 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillOverall, the super-complaints mechanism is more for groupings of complaints and has a broader range than the individual complaints process, but I will consider that point going…16 May 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillNo. The super-complaints mechanism is better thought of as part of a horizon-scanning mechanism. It is not—16 May 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillThe answer to the noble Lord’s question is that the super-complaint is not a mechanism for individuals to complain on an individual basis and seek redress.16 May 2023HANSARDOnline Safety BillAs I said, I am very happy to hold the meeting. We are giving users greater protection through the Bill, and, as agreed, we can discuss individual routes to recourse. I hope that,…16 May 2023HANSARDHorizon EuropeI thank the noble Lord for his question. I cannot comment specifically today on musicians and cultural exchange. Whether we go down the Horizon route or the less preferred Pioneer…11 May 2023HANSARDHorizon EuropeI thank my noble friend for her question. When the TCA was agreed in 2020, our association to Horizon was agreed as part of that. That no longer happened, but it remains the UK’s…11 May 2023HANSARDHorizon EuropeI thank the noble Baroness for her question. The UK is on record as seeking to become a science and technology superpower by 2030. Our preferred outcome, Horizon, is absolutely a…11 May 2023HANSARDHorizon EuropeI thank the noble Lord for the question—I am absolutely able to provide that assurance. It is being treated as a matter of great urgency and as I said, our preference is to…11 May 2023