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Lords Chamber
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill - Mon 23 Jun 2025
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: None all times act in the best interests of the child.(4) The advocate will assist the child to obtain legal - Speech Link
2: None become addictive and are designed to be addictive—not least some of the loot boxes. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Coffey (Con - Life peer) place, or helped to facilitate, the child support Act. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Smith of Malvern (Lab - Life peer) and Other Payments Act enable debt owed to parents or the Secretary of State to be transferred to other - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
King’s Speech - Tue 14 Nov 2023
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

Mentions:
1: Lord Butler of Brockwell (XB - Life peer) time the Government had reason to believe that there was a link between loot boxes and gambling, and - Speech Link
2: Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay (Con - Life peer) to scrutinise our progress on them.On loot boxes, the Government are committed to ensuring that video - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Online Safety Bill
Report stage - Wed 19 Jul 2023
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay (CON - Life peer) 236C then provides that the Secretary of State will have a power to make regulations to amend the Act - Speech Link
2: Lord Knight of Weymouth (LAB - Life peer) to have a much larger number in scope on the categorisation of size in order to cover all the platforms - Speech Link
3: Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay (CON - Life peer) It will therefore be ready to act accordingly to add services to the register should the need arise.The - Speech Link
4: Baroness Harding of Winscombe (CON - Life peer) I just wanted to flag to the House that they all cover the same fundamental issue of whether harms can - Speech Link
5: Baroness Benjamin (LDEM - Life peer) The amendment is a reminder to Ofcom that Parliament expects it to act, and to do so from the day when - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Online Safety Bill
Report stage - Mon 17 Jul 2023
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: None to the remedies under the Consumer Rights Act 2015 in the event of breach. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Neville-Jones (CON - Life peer) the powers of the Computer Misuse Act, but also to enlarge our understanding of and ability to have - Speech Link
3: None I gather that the Minister’s department has a working group to examine loot boxes. - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Lord Clement-Jones (LDEM - Life peer) She quoted it, saying:“The duties set out … are to be taken to extend only to content that is harmful - Speech Link
2: Lord Russell of Liverpool (CB - Excepted Hereditary) scrutiny committee was able to cover them in greater detail than the House of Commons was able to do.The - Speech Link
3: Lord Weir of Ballyholme (DUP - Life peer) It can act as a very strong guide to government as to the route it needs to take, and I think it has - Speech Link
4: Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick (LAB - Life peer) It would be absurd to argue that the size of a gambling company or the revenue that company makes should - 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) that to the rest of the Bill. - Speech Link
2: Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay (CON - Life peer) the transparency reporting requirements to cover the scope and application of the terms of service set - Speech Link
3: Lord Knight of Weymouth (LAB - Life peer) My Lords, in keeping with the Stevenson-Knight double act, I am leaving it to my noble friend to wind - Speech Link
4: Baroness Harding of Winscombe (CON - Life peer) extend to the algorithm itself that is driving the addictive behaviour that most of us are most worried - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Online Safety Bill
Report stage - Tue 12 Jul 2022
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Damian Collins (CON - Folkestone and Hythe) it still has to act if it is made aware of the offence. - Speech Link
2: Joanna Cherry (SNP - Edinburgh South West) would be good if we took the opportunity of this Bill to clarify that the Equality Act applies to Twitter - Speech Link
3: Damian Collins (CON - Folkestone and Hythe) in the context of the companies’ duties to act against illegal content. - Speech Link
4: Chris Bryant (LAB - Rhondda) on the Fixed-term Parliaments Act:“It seems to us to be cleaner and clearer to have a return to a more - Speech Link
5: Lindsay Hoyle (Speaker - Chorley) new clause defines pornographic content for the purposes of the Act and would apply to user-to-user - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Online Safety Bill (Tenth sitting)
Committee stage: 10th sitting - Tue 14 Jun 2022
No Department present

Mentions:
1: John Nicolson (SNP - Ochil and South Perthshire) Why not add a direct reference to the Modern Slavery Act, as in the amendment? - Speech Link
2: Alex Davies-Jones (LAB - Pontypridd) children say that loot boxes are available in the games they play and 40% have paid to open one. - Speech Link
3: Chris Philp (CON - Croydon South) straying somewhat outside this particular debate—is that loot boxes will not be covered by the gambling - Speech Link
4: Chris Philp (CON - Croydon South) The reason that loot boxes are not considered gambling in our view is that they do not have a monetary - Speech Link
5: Chris Philp (CON - Croydon South) It is right that we extend the duties to cover commercial pornographic content as well as the user-to-user - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Gambling Harm (Social and Economic Impact of the Gambling Industry Committee Report) - Wed 27 Apr 2022
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth (CON - Life peer) The Government need to extend the remit of the Gambling Commission to act to prevent future harm. - Speech Link
2: Viscount Colville of Culross (CB - Excepted Hereditary) to the committee by Dr Zendle—he is the expert on loot boxes—and I have spoken to him at length. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville (LDEM - Life peer) bringing loot boxes in video games within the scope of the Gambling Act 2005. - Speech Link
4: Viscount Astor (CON - Excepted Hereditary) seriously at an amendment to the Gambling Act 2005. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Queen’s Speech - Tue 18 May 2021
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Lord Foster of Bath (LDEM - Life peer) But now, it appears, gambling is to be omitted from the Bill. - Speech Link
2: Lord Dubs (LAB - Life peer) to the 2016 Act and by not seeking to negotiate the continuation of the family reunion provisions of - Speech Link
3: Lord Marks of Henley-on-Thames (LDEM - Life peer) Act are welcome, particularly the proposals to reform the process of mental health detention, to deal - Speech Link
4: Baroness Williams of Trafford (CON - Life peer) We have committed to a review of the Gambling Act to make sure that it is fit for the digital age and - Speech Link