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Lords Chamber
Online Safety Bill
Committee stage: Part 1 - Thu 22 Jun 2023
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Lord Bethell (CON - Excepted Hereditary) This is the commercial reality of how the internet will be policed, whether we like it or not. - Speech Link
2: Lord Allan of Hallam (LDEM - Life peer) Are we talking about the vast majority of the internet continuing as it is today within the new regime - Speech Link
3: Lord Allan of Hallam (LDEM - Life peer) I am reminded by my noble friend Lord Foster of Bath, particularly relating to the gambling sector, that - Speech Link
4: Lord Bethell (CON - Excepted Hereditary) First, there is Ofcom’s new relationship with the really big behemoths of the internet. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Cryptocurrency Regulation - Tue 13 Jun 2023
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Lisa Cameron (SNP - East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow) regulatory framework in financial services enables the Exchequer to collect taxes, as opposed to using the gambling - Speech Link
2: Andrew Griffith (CON - Arundel and South Downs) wider Web3 decentralised movement that is leading to a radical rethink about what the future of the internet - Speech Link
3: Andrew Griffith (CON - Arundel and South Downs) to try to move things forward.Fellow parliamentarians have suggested that cryptoassets are akin to gambling - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Baroness Harding of Winscombe (CON - Life peer) safety, particularly child internet safety, high enough up their pecking order compared with delivering - Speech Link
2: Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay (CON - Life peer) As set out in Schedule 5 to the Scotland Act 1998, however, telecommunications and thereby internet law - Speech Link
3: None The Gambling Commission does not apply any proportionality test to age restrictions, and nor do Soho - Speech Link
4: Baroness Jenkin of Kennington (CON - Life peer) The internet gives you access to literally everything you could possibly imagine, and the more you get - Speech Link
5: Lord Allan of Hallam (LDEM - Life peer) you know the age of that user.Equally, perfectly legitimate businesses, such as alcohol and online gambling - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Richard Graham (CON - Gloucester) The very encouraging Government White Paper on gambling tackles the destructive impact, especially of - Speech Link
2: Martin Docherty-Hughes (SNP - West Dunbartonshire) West (Carol Monaghan), I was contacted by a constituent who states:“I have recently connected to the internet - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Kevin Hollinrake (CON - Thirsk and Malton) Its last legislative overhaul took place nearly a quarter of a century ago, when the internet was in - Speech Link
2: 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
3: Matt Warman (CON - Boston and Skegness) I enjoyed the Minister’s opening gambit about how much the internet has changed our lives over many years - 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) Watch Foundation and the UK Safer Internet Centre for their excellent briefings. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Harding of Winscombe (CON - Life peer) Government do not want to do what they have just announced they want to do in other sectors such as gambling - Speech Link
3: None because the Minister is now in DSIT, but it is his former sister department—is creating an ombudsman for gambling - Speech Link
4: Baroness Fraser of Craigmaddie (CON - Life peer) We can compare other data by nation, for example on drug use or gambling addiction. - Speech Link
5: Baroness Healy of Primrose Hill (LAB - Life peer) The internet is fuelling an epidemic of self-harm, often leading to suicide among young people. - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Baroness Kidron (CB - Life peer) Parents for Online Safety were in the Chamber, or any child caught up in self-harm, depression sites, gambling - Speech Link
2: Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick (LAB - Life peer) For example, gambling is an activity that is age-verified for children. - 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) My Lords, some light can be shone on that question by thinking a little about what the gambling industry - Speech Link
2: Lord Knight of Weymouth (LAB - Life peer) intervention from the noble Lord, Lord Bethell, is that that kind of gets search off the hook in respect of gambling - Speech Link
3: Lord Bethell (CON - Excepted Hereditary) When I saw the internet in the late 1990s, I immediately saw a wonderful opportunity to target children - Speech Link
4: None For instance, research on the gambling industry has found that unless companies fear the consequences - 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) operations of the activity relating to people’s usage of social media and service functions on the internet - Speech Link
2: Lord Moylan (CON - Life peer) We already know that there is widespread suspicion that some internet platforms are too quick to close - Speech Link
3: Lord Stevenson of Balmacara (LAB - Life peer) A number of awful types of scamming have emerged only because of the internet and social media. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick (LAB - Life peer) age-inappropriate or otherwise inherently harmful content and activity (like pornography, violent material, gambling - Speech Link
5: None It is not to say that young people should not have access to the internet. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Online Safety Bill
Committee stage: Part 1 - Tue 25 Apr 2023
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Baroness Kidron (CB - Life peer) game addiction highlighted recently by Professor Henrietta Bowden-Jones, national expert adviser on gambling - Speech Link
2: Lord Bishop of Oxford (Bishops - Bishops) Some are more insidious and gradual: addictive behaviours, the promotion of gambling, the erosion of - Speech Link
3: Lord Bethell (CON - Excepted Hereditary) , which mean that young teens can access adult apps that offer dating, random chats, casual sex and gambling - Speech Link