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Lords Chamber
Online Safety Bill
Committee stage: Part 1 - Tue 02 May 2023
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Lord Russell of Liverpool (CB - Excepted Hereditary) “If we’re not on social media, we feel excluded”. - Speech Link
2: Lord Clement-Jones (LDEM - Life peer) We certainly do not know a great deal about how algorithms within social media companies operate. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick (LAB - Life peer) I know that some of your Lordships are concerned about age-gating social media. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Online Safety Bill
Committee stage: Part 2 - Tue 02 May 2023
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Lord Bethell (CON - Excepted Hereditary) To answer the noble Lord’s question, if someone does not log into their search and looks for a gambling - Speech Link
2: Lord Curry of Kirkharle (CB - Life peer) If unsuitable or harmful material is populating social media sites, the regulator must take action. - Speech Link
3: None This approach is modelled on provisions in the Irish Online Safety and Media Regulation Act 2022. - Speech Link
4: Lord McNally (LDEM - Life peer) One eminent social psychologist wrote:“The arrival of smartphones rewired social life.” - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 27 Apr 2023
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

Mentions:
1: Julia Lopez (CON - Hornchurch and Upminster) The Department for Culture, Media and Sport regularly meets the BBC to discuss a range of issues. - Speech Link
2: Matt Western (LAB - Warwick and Leamington) Will the Minister consider the role of local media and why local newspapers will not run political stories - Speech Link
3: Andrew Lewer (CON - Northampton South) If those were used for social engineering rather than factual accuracy purposes, would that cause Ministers - Speech Link
4: Julia Lopez (CON - Hornchurch and Upminster) sure that consumers get legal, decent, honest and truthful adverts, rather than value judgments on social - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Online Safety Bill
Committee stage: Part 2 - Thu 27 Apr 2023
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Lord Bishop of Guildford (Bishops - Bishops) Meanwhile, it is also clear that social media is changing the operation of the county lines model. - Speech Link
2: Lord Stevenson of Balmacara (LAB - Life peer) A number of awful types of scamming have emerged only because of the internet and social media. - Speech Link
3: Lord Bishop of Oxford (Bishops - Bishops) , social media posts normalising knife crime and violence, with such a deeply tragic outcome. - Speech Link
4: None She said that each of us sees social media through a pinhole: a tiny snapshot of the total content. - Speech Link
5: None The social media companies are the only ones not looking through a keyhole but monitoring social media - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Online Safety Bill
Committee stage: Part 1 - Tue 25 Apr 2023
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Lord Knight of Weymouth (LAB - Life peer) I suspect that we will spend a lot more time discussing social media than search, but I get the rationale - Speech Link
2: Lord McCrea of Magherafelt and Cookstown (DUP - Life peer) My view is quite simple: if a website, social media or content provider wishes to host pornographic material - Speech Link
3: Baroness Harding of Winscombe (CON - Life peer) I wonder what our social media landscape would have been like if the Bill had existed in law before social - Speech Link
4: Lord Bethell (CON - Excepted Hereditary) We envisage a degree of tidying up of social media and the internet to make sure that the dangerous content - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation - Tue 21 Mar 2023
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Edward Miliband (LAB - Doncaster North) What better way to make next month’s budget a budget for social justice?” - Speech Link
2: Valerie Vaz (LAB - Walsall South) And what about social care? There is nothing. This Budget fixes nothing. - Speech Link
3: Selaine Saxby (CON - North Devon) rest with the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and the Department for Culture, Media - Speech Link
4: Ben Lake (PC - Ceredigion) As the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee noted, the decision to allocate only 25% of the funding - Speech Link
5: John McDonnell (LAB - Hayes and Harlington) that underlined the crisis then are evident now: failure of regulation, mismanagement and speculative gambling - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Cash Acceptance - Mon 20 Mar 2023
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Drew Hendry (SNP - Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey) strain, that is fine, but post offices must be properly supported and recompensed for taking on this social - Speech Link
2: Paul Maynard (CON - Blackpool North and Cleveleys) introducing new rules, as some have advocated today, will not change that fact, even if it makes for some media-friendly - Speech Link
3: Patricia Gibson (SNP - North Ayrshire and Arran) The Centre for Social Justice recently found that 38% of people on low incomes report having faced cash - Speech Link
4: Margaret Ferrier (IND - Rutherglen and Hamilton West) Research has shown that carrying cash can help people with gambling issues to budget, avoid debt and - Speech Link
5: Patricia Gibson (SNP - North Ayrshire and Arran) Yes, and we expect gambling companies to step up and take greater responsibility for the harm that gambling - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Budget Statement - Thu 16 Mar 2023
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Lord Davies of Brixton (LAB - Life peer) First, it is shocking that there is nothing in the Budget about social care. - Speech Link
2: Lord Skidelsky (CB - Life peer) happened to energy prices.A remarkable thing about Budget making today is what it says about markets, media - Speech Link
3: Lord Griffiths of Fforestfach (CON - Life peer) He is not gambling with public expenditure, the borrowing requirement, the deficit and so on.There are - Speech Link
4: Lord Tugendhat (CON - Life peer) It was rather overshadowed in the media by the dispute between Gary Lineker and the BBC, but it is a - Speech Link
5: Baroness Lea of Lymm (CON - Life peer) My goodness me, how the media jumped on that. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
International Women’s Day - Fri 10 Mar 2023
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Baroness Barker (LDEM - Life peer) We see it day after day in our media. It is a campaign that seeks to pit women against women. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Lampard (CON - Life peer) Two-thirds of women who gamble say that their gambling is seen as “less acceptable” than gambling among - Speech Link
3: Baroness Fall (CON - Life peer) media for one, a near-constant source of pressure for many in our society but especially for women in - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 09 Mar 2023
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

Mentions:
1: Lucy Frazer (CON - South East Cambridgeshire) that the BBC will be speaking to Gary Lineker to remind him of his responsibilities in relation to social - Speech Link
2: Kevin Brennan (LAB - Cardiff West) I am glad the Minister of State, Department for Culture, Media and Sport, the hon. - Speech Link
3: Andrea Leadsom (CON - South Northamptonshire) support the roll-out of (a) family hubs and (b) the other policies in the Department of Health and Social - Speech Link
4: Peter Bottomley (CON - Worthing West) Friend that the Church of England Children’s Society 50 years ago supported the social entrepreneur Bob - Speech Link