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Lords Chamber
Online Safety Bill
Committee stage: Part 1 - Tue 09 May 2023
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay (CON - Life peer) Ofcom will set out how providers can comply in codes of practice and guidance that it publishes. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Buscombe (CON - Life peer) victims.Schedule 4, which defines Ofcom’s objectives in setting out codes of practice for regulated - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Online Safety Bill
Committee stage: Part 2 - Tue 09 May 2023
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Baroness Fox of Buckley (Non-affiliated - Life peer) It can be, as was mentioned, survivors of sexual violence or domestic abuse. - Speech Link
2: Lord Moylan (CON - Life peer) the law when designing codes of practice, writing guidance and undertaking enforcement action. - Speech Link
3: Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay (CON - Life peer) expression, with an accompanying code of practice. - Speech Link
4: Lord Stevenson of Balmacara (LAB - Life peer) would be looking at what happened over the last year in relation to its codes of practice and assertions - Speech Link
5: Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay (CON - Life peer) practice or guidance. - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Lord Stevenson of Balmacara (LAB - Life peer) what would have been primary legislation, which no doubt would have been backed up by codes of practice - Speech Link
2: Lord Moylan (CON - Life peer) One of those is Section 5 of that Act, “Harassment, alarm or distress”. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Buscombe (CON - Life peer) or are already suffering awful online abuse and harassment. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Benjamin (LDEM - Life peer) This includes sexual content that does not meet the threshold of pornography. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill
Consideration of Commons amendments - Tue 21 Mar 2023
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Earl Howe (CON - Excepted Hereditary) agreements in cases of sexual abuse, harassment or misconduct, or other bullying or harassment, as proposed - Speech Link
2: Lord Collins of Highbury (LAB - Life peer) But they have been developing good practice and best practice. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
International Women’s Day - Thu 09 Mar 2023
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Wera Hobhouse (LDEM - Bath) Equality Act 2010) Bill aims to protect women from sexual harassment in the workplace. - Speech Link
2: Abena Oppong-Asare (LAB - Erith and Thamesmead) panels at Labour party events, fought for tougher action on sexual harassment, made Labour’s selection - Speech Link
3: Anneliese Dodds (LAB - Oxford East) More than two thirds of women have experienced some form of sexual harassment in a public space, and - Speech Link
4: Maria Caulfield (CON - Lewes) Lady for her private Member’s Bill, which will tackle sexual harassment in the workplace. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill
Consideration of Lords amendments - Tue 07 Feb 2023
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Claire Coutinho (CON - East Surrey) sexual misconduct, abuse or harassment or other forms of bullying or harassment. - Speech Link
2: Layla Moran (LDEM - Oxford West and Abingdon) non-disclosure agreements by universities in cases of sexual harassment, sexual abuse, bullying and - Speech Link
3: Layla Moran (LDEM - Oxford West and Abingdon) by any organisation or institution in cases of sexual assault, harassment and bullying. - Speech Link
4: Jeremy Corbyn (IND - Islington North) Those issues are best dealt with by codes of practice, rather than by threats of legal action. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Online Safety Bill
2nd reading - Wed 01 Feb 2023
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay (CON - Life peer) amending the codes of practice, ensuring that victims, particularly victims and survivors of domestic - Speech Link
2: Baroness Stowell of Beeston (CON - Life peer) Clause 39 allows the Secretary of State to direct Ofcom to change its codes of practice on regulating - Speech Link
3: Baroness D'Souza (CB - Life peer) codes of practice are to be submitted to the Secretary of State, who could require Ofcom to modify codes - Speech Link
4: Baroness Fox of Buckley (Non-affiliated - Life peer) shape Ofcom’s codes of practice, which is a potential route for political interference. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Online Safety Bill
Report stage - Tue 17 Jan 2023
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Damian Collins (CON - Folkestone and Hythe) , and when it has been demonstrated that they are clearly in breach of the codes of practice and are - Speech Link
2: None I welcome the work on creating codes of practice. - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
ONLINE SAFETY BILL (Second sitting)
Committee stage (re-committed clauses and schedules): 2nd sitting - Tue 13 Dec 2022
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Alex Davies-Jones (LAB - Pontypridd) Members of that council included expert groups working to tackle harassment and child sexual exploitation - Speech Link
2: Damian Collins (CON - Folkestone and Hythe) In that case, where those duties exist elsewhere in the Bill, we have codes of practice in place to make - Speech Link
3: Paul Scully (CON - Sutton and Cheam) services who take measures other than those recommended in codes of practice in order to comply with - Speech Link
4: Alex Davies-Jones (LAB - Pontypridd) provider may seek to comply via alternative measures.The codes of practice should be, for want of a better - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
ONLINE SAFETY BILL (First sitting)
Committee stage (re-committed clauses and schedules): 1st sitting - Tue 13 Dec 2022
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Damian Collins (CON - Folkestone and Hythe) That could be discussed in the risk assessments, and agreed in the codes of practice. - Speech Link
2: Paul Scully (CON - Sutton and Cheam) set out in codes of practice the specific steps that providers can take to protect children who are - Speech Link
3: Paul Scully (CON - Sutton and Cheam) Ofcom will produce codes of practice setting out how providers can meet that duty, which may include - Speech Link
4: Charlotte Nichols (LAB - Warrington North) fall under the scope of public order offences or harassment. - Speech Link