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Lords Chamber
Online Safety Bill
Committee stage: Part 1 - Tue 23 May 2023
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Lord Bishop of Oxford (Bishops - Bishops) media and other channels. - Speech Link
2: None The Gambling Commission does not apply any proportionality test to age restrictions, and nor do Soho - Speech Link
3: None As drafted, the Bill creates a substantial loophole for social media, which my noble friend Lady Harding - Speech Link
4: Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay (CON - Life peer) If there is a company such as a user-to-user service in social media that says it does not allow pornography - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 18 May 2023
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Penny Mordaunt (CON - Portsmouth North) I shall certainly ensure that the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care has heard that point - Speech Link
2: Richard Graham (CON - Gloucester) online gambling, without damaging legitimate betting, racing or the lottery fund. - Speech Link
3: Penny Mordaunt (CON - Portsmouth North) Friend not just for his question, but for proposing a solution for the Department for Culture, Media - Speech Link
4: Justin Madders (LAB - Ellesmere Port and Neston) May we therefore have a statement from the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care about what they - Speech Link
5: Martin Docherty-Hughes (SNP - West Dunbartonshire) upgraded my package by £10 per month, on top of the £15 already agreed”.The position on the issue of social - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill
2nd reading - Wed 17 May 2023
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Craig Whittaker (CON - Calder Valley) for great causes that put so much back into all our communities, are already heavily regulated by the Gambling - Speech Link
2: Seema Malhotra (LAB - Feltham and Heston) taking action against drip-pricing and misleading green claims, and requiring online marketplaces and social - Speech Link
3: James Wild (CON - North West Norfolk) The businesses that develop and apply new technologies—be they social media platforms, online marketplaces - Speech Link
4: Alex Davies-Jones (LAB - Pontypridd) At the same time, stories depicting the dominance of social media and online platforms continue to hit - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Online Safety Bill
Committee stage: Part 1 - Tue 16 May 2023
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Baroness Newlove (CON - Life peer) When Harry and his mum reported it to the social media platforms, they were informed that it did not - Speech Link
2: None Only then did the social media companies concerned remove the content. - Speech Link
3: None The volume of individual complaints generated about social media platforms is just vast”. - Speech Link
4: Lord Russell of Liverpool (CB - Excepted Hereditary) How do I deal with eating disorder content on social media? - Speech Link
5: Baroness Gohir (CB - Life peer) Because of abuse, women are more likely to reduce their social media activity or even leave social media - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 11 May 2023
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Navendu Mishra (LAB - Stockport) Recent media reports inform us that Vodafone UK and Three are in advanced talks about a merger, but my - Speech Link
2: Alex Davies-Jones (LAB - Pontypridd) Once again, they have U-turned on a policy and it was the media that found out first. - Speech Link
3: Penny Mordaunt (CON - Portsmouth North) to the press and to put out his views on social media. - Speech Link
4: Christine Jardine (LDEM - Edinburgh West) Thank you very much, Mr Deputy Speaker, although I do find my concerns about gambling now reinforced.May - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Data Protection and Digital Information (No. 2) Bill (First sitting)
Committee stage: 1st sitting - Wed 10 May 2023
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Stephanie Peacock (LAB - Barnsley East) first challenge, about codes of conduct, we worked closely with the Department for Digital, Culture, Media - Speech Link
2: Damian Collins (CON - Folkestone and Hythe) Major social media platforms rely on inferred data to drive their recommendation tools and systems. - Speech Link
3: Damian Collins (CON - Folkestone and Hythe) be it a company assessing someone’s attitude to risk and how that affects the way they might use a gambling - Speech Link
4: Stephanie Peacock (LAB - Barnsley East) and give control as a gateway to large companies that manage browser technology, at the expense of media - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Gambling Act Review White Paper - Wed 03 May 2023
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Lord Bassam of Brighton (LAB - Life peer) and four Secretaries of State for Culture, Media and Sport have promised this White Paper imminently - Speech Link
2: Lord Grade of Yarmouth (Non-affiliated - Life peer) A lot of the toxicity in the gambling sector was due to the Gambling Commission being asleep on the job - Speech Link
3: Baroness Armstrong of Hill Top (LAB - Life peer) adverts on social media at least weekly. - Speech Link
4: Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay (CON - Life peer) We do not direct the Gambling Commission on its regulation of gambling more widely—it is an independent - Speech Link
5: Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville (LDEM - Life peer) trapped by addiction to gambling. - Speech Link


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