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Commons Chamber
Valedictory Debate - Fri 24 May 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Theresa May (Con - Maidenhead) show the value and importance of democracy, because it is democracy that enables people to have the freedom - Speech Link
2: Ben Wallace (Con - Wyre and Preston North) Our public, our discourse, our media and the social media pressures are changing our society and not - Speech Link
3: Ian Blackford (SNP - Ross, Skye and Lochaber) We must see Russia pushed back and see liberty, freedom and security delivered to those people.I do regret - Speech Link
4: Nickie Aiken (Con - Cities of London and Westminster) I am proud that I was given the freedom of the City last year.Following on from what so many colleagues - Speech Link
5: Tim Loughton (Con - East Worthing and Shoreham) Social media has made our job harder. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Finance (No. 2) Bill
2nd reading - Fri 24 May 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Baroness Hazarika (Lab - Life peer) In an era of polarisation and division, driven particularly by social media, it is important to show - Speech Link
2: Lord Davies of Brixton (Lab - Life peer) purchase schemes gives the appearance that they are simply savings arrangements, with the infamous freedom - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 23 May 2024
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) The UK has been through tough times, but the choices we have made collectively have given us the freedom - Speech Link
2: Kirsty Blackman (SNP - Aberdeen North) The last media Bill was passed when teletext was still cutting edge, so we really need this Media Bill - Speech Link
3: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) House and others in this House know, as chair of the all-party parliamentary group on international freedom - Speech Link
4: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) Friend for all she has done in this Parliament to promote religious freedom. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Media Bill
Consideration of Lords amendments - Thu 23 May 2024
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Julia Lopez (Con - Hornchurch and Upminster) feels a privilege to be able to stand at this Dispatch Box.I rise to ask that all amendments to the Media - Speech Link
2: None I led on the Media Bill because my colleague and hon. - Speech Link
3: Nigel Evans (Con - Ribble Valley) That concludes consideration of Lords amendments to the Media Bill—congratulations. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 23 May 2024
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Lord True (Con - Life peer) The deadline for tabling amendments to the Media Bill is noon. - Speech Link
2: Earl Attlee (Con - Excepted Hereditary) I oppose my noble friend’s Motion, but in respect only of Clause 50 of the Media Bill, which seeks to - Speech Link
3: Lord Alton of Liverpool (XB - Life peer) Bill in the House of Commons on making permanent the position of the Prime Minister’s Special Envoy on Freedom - Speech Link
4: Lord True (Con - Life peer) The Media Bill has had examination: it has completed Committee stage, and Report stage—a late stage of - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Media Bill
Report stage - Thu 23 May 2024
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Baroness Benjamin (LD - Life peer) of public service media. - Speech Link
2: Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay (Con - Life peer) of public service media. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Fox of Buckley (Non-affiliated - Life peer) I also happen to believe in media independence and freedom, which is an important point.I want the Bill - Speech Link
4: None His Majesty’s Government are committed to protecting media freedom and the invaluable role of a free - Speech Link
5: Viscount Astor (Con - Excepted Hereditary) I make it clear that this is not an attack about press freedom. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Holocaust Memorial Bill
Committee of the whole House - Wed 22 May 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: None to do several interviews, which I may not be doing, but it has always been a favoured place for the media - Speech Link
2: Rachel Maclean (Con - Redditch) and freedom of speech prosper, and the memorial is a vital part of bolstering Jewish people’s freedom - Speech Link
3: Simon Hoare (Con - North Dorset) and democratic institutions, as well as freedom of speech, freedom of association and freedom of thought.The - Speech Link
4: Wera Hobhouse (LD - Bath) Holocaust denial is becoming more prolific, with conspiracies spread on social media, and we must confront - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Political Violence and Disruption: Walney Report - Wed 22 May 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Miriam Cates (Con - Penistone and Stocksbridge) It contains 78 references to social media, which of course has been instrumental in allowing extremists - Speech Link
2: Tom Tugendhat (Con - Tonbridge and Malling) Friend’s approach to this, and to many other aspects of social media and online harms. - Speech Link
3: Joanna Cherry (SNP - Edinburgh South West) of expression and freedom of assembly. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Media Bill
Committee stageLords Handsard - Wed 22 May 2024
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Lord Black of Brentwood (Con - Life peer) Freedom of speech with no strings attached. - Speech Link
2: Lord Inglewood (Non-affiliated - Excepted Hereditary) Freedom of expression is clearly very important. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Fleet (Con - Life peer) Yet Section 40 would in fact force publishers to choose between freedom from the state and freedom from - Speech Link
4: Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay (Con - Life peer) This is likely further to exacerbate the risks to media freedom and quality journalism posed by commencing - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Victims and Prisoners Bill
Report stage part one - Tue 21 May 2024
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Lord Blunkett (Lab - Life peer) It has at last reached the public ear—in broadcast, print and online media there is now real attention - Speech Link
2: Lord Moylan (Con - Life peer) On social media, it has been dubbed the “Simon Brown Memorial Amendment”, as testament to the passion - Speech Link
3: Lord Marks of Henley-on-Thames (LD - Life peer) mechanism, unjustly withholding from prisoners a date of release, routinely depriving them of any hope of freedom - Speech Link
4: None Disqualification Act 1975, at the appropriate place insert—“The Infected Blood Compensation Authority.”Freedom - Speech Link