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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 12 Jul 2022
Online Safety Bill

"While the shadow Minister is on the subject of exemptions for antisemites, will she say where the Opposition are on the issue of search? Search platforms and search engines provide some of the most appalling racist, Islamophobic and antisemitic content...."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 12 Jul 2022
Online Safety Bill

"Is that not exactly why there has to be action on legal but harmful content? The cross-boundary, cross-national powers of these organisations mean that we have to insist that they take action against harm, whether lawful or unlawful. We are simply asking those organisations to risk assess and ensure that …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 12 Jul 2022
Online Safety Bill

"This has been an interesting debate on a Bill I have followed closely. I have been particularly struck by some of the arguments that claim the Bill is an attack on freedom of speech. I always listen intently to my right hon. Friend the Member for Haltemprice and Howden (Mr …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 25 May 2022
Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure Bill

"I welcome the Minister’s rejection of those amendments. In my area, we have KCOM, which is a strong local performer. Had it not been for KCOM, most of my constituents, who are on the dual network, where it can be KCOM or Openreach, would not be anywhere near to getting …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 25 May 2022
Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure Bill

"It is interesting to follow the comments of the SNP spokesman, the hon. Member for Midlothian (Owen Thompson), particularly on disinformation and misinformation. If he wants to see some examples of excellent disinformation and misinformation, I refer him to some of the fake content that occasionally goes out from cybernats.

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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 25 May 2022
Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure Bill

"Indeed, but as my right hon. Friend will know, Brigg and Goole is of course the most important place in this country, and I am therefore particularly exercised by what happens there. He is absolutely right, though: that competition, which is also seeing the KCOM network expanded and rolled out …..."
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Written Question
Non-fungible Tokens
Monday 23rd May 2022

Asked by: Andrew Percy (Conservative - Brigg and Goole)

Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether it is her Department's policy that Non-Fungible Tokens or any aspect of the mechanisms of their transfer are considered to be user-to-user regulated content under the terms set out in the Online Safety Bill.

Answered by Chris Philp - Shadow Home Secretary

We introduced the Online Safety Bill to Parliament on 17 March 2022 and it passed its second reading in the House of Commons on 19 April.

The Bill will apply to a range of services that allow users to interact with each other and post content online. Companies will have duties to take action to prevent the proliferation of illegal content and to protect children from harmful content. This will include taking action against harmful content within Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs), such as preventing users from encountering them where these are shared on in scope services.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 19 Apr 2022
Online Safety Bill

"I, too, regret the short time we have to debate this important Bill this evening. This is much-needed legislation and I agree with many of the comments already made.

These platforms have been warned over the years to take action yet have failed to do so. Their online platforms have …..."
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Written Question
Television Licences
Tuesday 25th January 2022

Asked by: Andrew Percy (Conservative - Brigg and Goole)

Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how many black and white TV licences have been paid for in each of the last five years.

Answered by Julia Lopez

The BBC is responsible for administration of TV licences and, therefore, the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport does not hold this information. However, the below figures from the BBC’s Annual Reports show the number of monochrome TV licences in force for each of the last five financial years, to the nearest thousand.

2020/21: 4,000

2019/20: 5,000

2018/19: 5,000

2017/18: 6,000

2016/17: 6,000

Written Question
Social Media: Eating Disorders and Self-harm
Monday 6th December 2021

Asked by: Andrew Percy (Conservative - Brigg and Goole)

Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department is taking to hold social media platforms accountable for content promoting eating disorders and self-harm on their platforms.

Answered by Chris Philp - Shadow Home Secretary

The strongest protections in the Online Safety Bill will be for children. Services in scope of the Bill which are likely to be accessed by children will need to do much more to protect them from harmful content. This includes content promoting eating disorders or self-harm content.

Major platforms will also need to address legal but harmful content accessed by adults.

The Government will set out in secondary legislation priority categories of harmful material for children and adults. If platforms fail in their duties under the Bill, they will face tough enforcement action including fines of up to 10% of global annual qualifying turnover.

The Government asked the Law Commission to review current legislation on harmful online communications. It has now published final recommendations, which includes a proposed new offence to address the encouragement of self-harm. The Government is considering the Law Commission’s recommendations and will set out our position in due course.