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Commons Chamber
Draft Online Safety Bill Report - Thu 13 Jan 2022
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: None [Relevant documents: E-petition 575833, “Make verified ID a requirement for opening a social media - Speech Link
2: Afzal Khan (LAB - Manchester, Gorton) Friend agrees that the social media companies must be held to account for their repeated failures. - Speech Link
3: John Nicolson (SNP - Ochil and South Perthshire) For too long the social media companies have been given carte blanche to make eye-watering amounts of - Speech Link
4: Chris Philp (CON - Croydon South) Friend the Member for Folkestone and Hythe, who said in his opening speech that social media firms had - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Elections Bill (Fifth sitting)
Committee stage:s: 5th sitting - Wed 22 Sep 2021
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Paul Bristow (CON - Peterborough) Lady’s vast experience as a member of the Labour party, has the requirement for voter ID to vote in internal - Speech Link
2: Chris Clarkson (CON - Heywood and Middleton) The requirement to produce a simple piece of ID to confirm that it is Mr Jones of Acacia Avenue is not - Speech Link
3: Cat Smith (LAB - Lancaster and Fleetwood) the same requirement for people to come forward. - Speech Link
4: Cat Smith (LAB - Lancaster and Fleetwood) If people also have to show ID and have it verified by the polling card, what does the hon. - Speech Link
5: Brendan O'Hara (SNP - Argyll and Bute) registration drive, increasing participation and opening up? - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Elections Bill (Third sitting)
Committee stage:s: 3rd sitting - Thu 16 Sep 2021
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: None media officer for Labour International. - Speech Link
2: Chloe Smith (CON - Norwich North) taken into account in its design? - Speech Link
3: Cat Smith (LAB - Lancaster and Fleetwood) Do you think that the requirement to show voter ID will increase or decrease participation among black - Speech Link
4: Paul Bristow (CON - Peterborough) You then dismissed one social media user’s comment about fraud by saying,“Sure, I understand the security - Speech Link
5: Jerome Mayhew (CON - Broadland) currently under consideration for the voter ID requirement?” - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Elections Bill (Second sitting)
Committee stage:s: 2nd sitting - Wed 15 Sep 2021
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Cat Smith (LAB - Lancaster and Fleetwood) That has been a requirement in Northern Ireland for some time. - Speech Link
2: Peter Gibson (CON - Darlington) over a number of years, if there is not any requirement to provide any form of ID. - Speech Link
3: Jerome Mayhew (CON - Broadland) if a requirement was introduced. - Speech Link
4: Cat Smith (LAB - Lancaster and Fleetwood) to disseminate messages across social media. - Speech Link
5: Chloe Smith (CON - Norwich North) What I am most familiar with is not national Government efforts, but the efforts made by social media - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Elections Bill
2nd reading - Tue 07 Sep 2021
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Joanna Cherry (SNP - Edinburgh South West) the“introduction of a voter ID requirement may have a discriminatory impact on certain groups with protected - Speech Link
2: Mark Fletcher (CON - Bolsover) The Minister set out in her opening remarks that 98% of people have access to appropriate ID already - Speech Link
3: Cat Smith (LAB - Lancaster and Fleetwood) we cannot have ID requirements for access to social media sites because not everybody has ID. - Speech Link
4: Anthony Browne (CON - South Cambridgeshire) requirement to show voter ID. - Speech Link
5: Alec Shelbrooke (CON - Elmet and Rothwell) media on a daily basis. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Dissolution and Calling of Parliament Bill
2nd reading - Tue 06 Jul 2021
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Cat Smith (LAB - Lancaster and Fleetwood) If I may, I will make a little progress. - Speech Link
2: Alec Shelbrooke (CON - Elmet and Rothwell) He used social media and all the other things to stir it up by saying, “I won this election.” - Speech Link
3: Owen Thompson (SNP - Midlothian) the judiciary, and more chances to hold the Executive to account. - Speech Link
4: Aaron Bell (CON - Newcastle-under-Lyme) tested, which is what we are trying to do today.Conclusion 7 of our report was that a requirement for - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Queen’s Speech - Wed 19 May 2021
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Baroness Cox (CB - Life peer) They continue to refuse to hold Turkey and Azerbaijan to account for their actions, despite clear evidence - Speech Link
2: Lord Alton of Liverpool (CB - Life peer) his independent media, a champion of Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. - Speech Link
3: Lord St John of Bletso (CB - Excepted Hereditary) the time to consider measures to introduce a digital ID. - Speech Link
4: Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton (CON - Life peer) for the Secretary of State to make a report to Parliament each year. - Speech Link
5: Lord Naseby (CON - Life peer) My evidence is verified—there was no genocide. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Online Anonymity and Anonymous Abuse - Wed 24 Mar 2021
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: None [Relevant Documents: e-petition 575833, Make verified ID a requirement for opening a social media account - Speech Link
2: Carla Lockhart (DUP - Upper Bann) basis for enforcing measures for social media firms to require ID to verify accounts and for a swifter - Speech Link
3: Jamie Wallis (CON - Bridgend) some observations about the proposals on verified ID. - Speech Link
4: Catherine McKinnell (LAB - Newcastle upon Tyne North) media accounts permanently deactivated.Similarly, a petition to make verified identity a requirement - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Financial Services Bill
Committee stage - Wed 03 Mar 2021
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Eatwell (LAB - Life peer) Hundreds are prosecuted every year for fiddling a few quid from social security; you can count the annual - Speech Link
2: Lord Holmes of Richmond (CON - Life peer) If we could deliver an effective and efficient distributed ID system for individuals and corporate entities - Speech Link
3: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (GRN - Life peer) I will use social media to ensure that it gets as wide a circulation as possible. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Penn (CON - Life peer) The Government have introduced a requirement for the 22 professional body supervisors mentioned to publish - Speech Link
5: Lord True (CON - Life peer) Similarly, Amendment 68 would require the Government to publish a timetable, with a requirement for the - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Pension Schemes Bill [HL]
Report stage (Hansard) - Tue 30 Jun 2020
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Lord Sharkey (LDEM - Life peer) notice must include a requirement that the trustees“make an assessment of the extent to which the scheme - Speech Link
2: None for reporting on broader environmental and social issues. - Speech Link
3: None before opening it up to commercial operations from the start. - Speech Link
4: Earl Howe (CON - Excepted Hereditary) us back to the issue of digital identity and how a user of a dashboard is verified. - Speech Link