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Grand Committee
Data Protection and Digital Information Bill
Committee stage - Mon 15 Apr 2024
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

Mentions:
1: Baroness Kidron (XB - Life peer) Digital Information Bill”. - Speech Link
2: Lord Clement-Jones (LD - Life peer) either case; instead, the problem centred around failures in offender management, along with a lack of communication - Speech Link
3: Baroness Kidron (XB - Life peer) support.We have spent considerable time across the digital Bills—the online safety, digital markets - Speech Link
4: None and General Comment 25 on Children’s Rights in relation to the Digital Environment, and(ii) the fact - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
5G Masts: Greater Manchester - Wed 13 Mar 2024
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Jim McMahon (LAB - Oldham West and Royton) roll-out of 5G and wireless broadband through masts, cabinets and telegraph poles across Greater Manchester - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) Member agree that we need better communication from local planners on installation and the safety of - Speech Link
3: Jim McMahon (LAB - Oldham West and Royton) Digital inclusion should enhance communities and bring people together. - Speech Link
4: Yasmin Qureshi (Lab - Bolton South East) Bolton is well served by broadband providers, and we already have ample coverage in our area. - Speech Link
5: Julia Lopez (Con - Hornchurch and Upminster) I do not want a digital divide to emerge.The hon. - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Overhead Electrical Transmission Lines - Thu 29 Feb 2024
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Lord Swire (Con - Life peer) There are good and bad ways of achieving net zero, and this is a bad way. - Speech Link
2: Lord Bruce of Bennachie (LD - Life peer) This was aggravated by the fact that BT had replaced its fixed lines with digital lines, which require - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Digital Exclusion - Wed 28 Feb 2024
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

Mentions:
1: Sarah Dyke (LD - Somerton and Frome) However, in rural areas such as Somerton and Frome, access to the digital space is limited by poor broadband - Speech Link
2: Selaine Saxby (Con - North Devon) I chair the all-party parliamentary group on broadband and digital communication, which is looking to - Speech Link
3: Derek Thomas (Con - St Ives) Minister give us that communication will be possible in a power outage, particularly in rural and very - Speech Link
4: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) On access, sufficient broadband is a requirement for people to be digital, and I have at least three - Speech Link
5: Chris Evans (LAB - Islwyn) Such tasks include communication through email, buying goods and services, staying safe and avoiding - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Media Bill
2nd reading - Wed 28 Feb 2024
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Lord Stevenson of Balmacara (Lab - Life peer) There are 3 million households still without broadband, of which over 2 million comprise mainly older - Speech Link
2: Baroness Fraser of Craigmaddie (Con - Life peer) that, regardless of rollout, more than 5.5 million properties in the UK will not have a high-speed broadband - Speech Link
3: Lord Inglewood (Non-affiliated - Excepted Hereditary) Private matters can go viral, and private point-to-point communication can become as publicly available - Speech Link
4: Baroness Thornton (Lab - Life peer) Even in 2003, however, we knew that the media, tech and communication world was moving very fast and - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Poverty Reduction - Thu 22 Feb 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Baroness Lane-Fox of Soho (XB - Life peer) digital ability to connect them. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Burt of Solihull (LD - Life peer) She spoke very coherently and passionately about the importance of communication: if you do not have - Speech Link
3: Viscount Younger of Leckie (Con - Excepted Hereditary) for new broadband social tariffs to low-income households. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Digital Exclusion (Communications and Digital Committee Report) - Thu 08 Feb 2024
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

Mentions:
1: Lord Griffiths of Burry Port (Lab - Life peer) other communication outlets, picked up on the major themes in a very big way. - Speech Link
2: Lord Clement-Jones (LD - Life peer) They lack access to devices and broadband, and mobile connectivity is a major source of data poverty - Speech Link
3: Baroness Jones of Whitchurch (Lab - Life peer) While young people are becoming more adept at using smartphones for basic communication and social media - Speech Link
4: Viscount Camrose (Con - Excepted Hereditary) broadband rollout across the UK, essential digital skills support and legislation to tackle online harms - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill
Committee stage - Wed 07 Feb 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: None For example, Ofcom has already designed a framework for reminders for broadband and mobile phone providers - Speech Link
2: Viscount Colville of Culross (XB - Excepted Hereditary) This would have been covered by the 2019 EU directive on digital content and digital services, in Article - Speech Link
3: Baroness Jones of Whitchurch (Lab - Life peer) ”is oblique and could cause genuine confusion as to whether and how the communication is received. - Speech Link
4: Lord Offord of Garvel (Con - Life peer) We of course appreciate that any communication to end a contract must be clear to a business. - Speech Link
5: Lord Clement-Jones (LD - Life peer) The imbalance between physical and digital traders has been far too great and has advantaged the digital - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Media Bill
Report stage - Tue 30 Jan 2024
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Peter Bottomley (Con - Worthing West) Friend help the House by saying whether he has had any communication with The Guardian or Private Eye - Speech Link
2: None I have had much communication from BBC Alba on this and I continue to support its work. - Speech Link
3: Douglas Ross (Con - Moray) the least well served by broadband connectivity. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Shared Rural Network Implementation - Wed 24 Jan 2024
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Helen Morgan (LD - North Shropshire) The roll-out of broadband and Project Gigabit in North Shropshire is very welcome, but the mobile signal - Speech Link
2: Helen Morgan (LD - North Shropshire) Interestingly, respondents to a survey conducted by Building Digital UK cited poor mobile coverage as - Speech Link
3: Dan Poulter (Con - Central Suffolk and North Ipswich) towers are often used to support broadband masts. - Speech Link
4: Ben Everitt (Con - Milton Keynes North) Improving rural connectivity is about tackling regional inequalities and the digital exclusion that we - Speech Link
5: Chris Evans (LAB - Islwyn) meet communication needs or through online information about available services. - Speech Link