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Grand Committee
Data Protection and Digital Information Bill
Committee stage - Wed 20 Mar 2024
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

Mentions:
1: Viscount Camrose (Con - Excepted Hereditary) It requires social media companies to protect children from illegal, harmful and age-inappropriate content - Speech Link
2: None asymmetry between their position as holders of personal data and the power of big tech, with social media - Speech Link
3: None could really help to crack exactly that sort of thing: it could debate and discuss this with social media - Speech Link
4: Baroness Jones of Whitchurch (Lab - Life peer) It assumes a degree of knowledge about their rights and a degree of digital literacy, which we know many - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Spring Budget 2024 - Mon 18 Mar 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Lord Young of Cookham (Con - Life peer) the country not fortunate to have such perceptive economic correspondents in all our newspapers and media - Speech Link
2: Baroness Vere of Norbiton (Con - Life peer) It is right that financial literacy is supported at a young age. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
News Broadcasting: Regulation - Thu 14 Mar 2024
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Lord McNally (LD - Life peer) In the United States there is no impartiality governance framework round the media. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) literacy and critical thinking. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) Boy, there has been a lot of water under the bridge in our media since then. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Bonham-Carter of Yarnbury (LD - Life peer) That is very timely, because of the Media Bill and also because TalkTV has decided to go online. - Speech Link
5: Baroness Jones of Whitchurch (Lab - Life peer) As the noble Lord, Lord Inglewood, pointed out, the media world is in permanent revolution. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
International Women’s Day - Fri 08 Mar 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Baroness Gohir (XB - Life peer) Financial literacy could also have a positive impact on reducing religious-only marriages, which are - Speech Link
2: Baroness Owen of Alderley Edge (Con - Life peer) Women may withdraw from social media and sometimes even from normal life. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Sater (Con - Life peer) As that campaign reports:“Financial literacy has been proven to increase social mobility and improve - Speech Link
4: Baroness Barran (Con - Life peer) focus on these areas.I will say a word about representation and women’s voices in public life and the media - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 07 Mar 2024
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) and 200,000 more pensioners in absolute poverty, 4 million fewer in work, youth unemployment at 45%, literacy - Speech Link
2: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) Lady will know that the Department for Culture, Media and Sport has put an enormous focus on supporting - Speech Link
3: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) We are soaring up the international literacy tables, and we have reformed post-16 education to enable - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Higher Education - Thu 07 Mar 2024
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Baroness Garden of Frognal (LD - Life peer) The media sadly seems to prefer tales of dissent—impoverished and bullied students, and overworked and - Speech Link
2: Baroness Wilcox of Newport (Lab - Life peer) Secretary of State, now my noble friend Lord Blunkett, who was determined to ensure higher standards in literacy - Speech Link
3: Baroness Barran (Con - Life peer) We will introduce T-levels in craft and design, and media broadcast and production, from September this - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Educational Attainment of Boys - Tue 05 Mar 2024
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Nick Fletcher (Con - Don Valley) of the disengaged teenage students were those who had arrived at secondary school aged 11 with low literacy - Speech Link
2: Catherine McKinnell (Lab - Newcastle upon Tyne North) Indeed, we will have a debate here tomorrow about World Book Day and how important reading and literacy - Speech Link
3: David Johnston (Con - Wantage) Friend the Member for Don Valley talked about the importance of literacy, as did my hon. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Security of Elected Representatives - Thu 29 Feb 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Doocey (LD - Life peer) politicians of all parties, and the perception that politicians are “fair game” for abuse on social media - Speech Link
2: Baroness Doocey (LD - Life peer) effectively tackle online crimes such as personal fraud, and threats and incitement to violence on social media - Speech Link
3: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) Of course, I completely agree about social media. - Speech Link
4: Lord Bishop of Norwich (Bshp - Bishops) Given the ignorance around many other faith communities, how might priority be given to religious literacy - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Welsh Affairs - Thu 29 Feb 2024
Wales Office

Mentions:
1: Stephen Crabb (Con - Preseli Pembrokeshire) meeting A-level students at Gower College and talking to them about their aspirations, how they consume media - Speech Link
2: Virginia Crosbie (Con - Ynys Môn) was the same Welsh Bible that clerics such as Griffith Jones from Llanddowror used to provide Welsh literacy - Speech Link
3: Jo Stevens (Lab - Cardiff Central) The organisers of the anti-20 mph social media groups in Wales are run by a Conservative councillor from - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Richard Foord (LD - Tiverton and Honiton) On the subject of digital exclusion, we should also look at the opposite: digital literacy. - Speech Link
2: Chris Evans (LAB - Islwyn) It is vital that digital exclusion is given as much importance as we gave to literacy in schools over - Speech Link
3: Saqib Bhatti (Con - Meriden) trusted network of accessible locations with free wi-fi, which is funded by the Department for Culture, Media - Speech Link
4: Saqib Bhatti (Con - Meriden) Communication providers, such as BT and Virgin Media, are upgrading their old analogue landline network—also - Speech Link
5: Justin Madders (Lab - Ellesmere Port and Neston) interplay of factors including age, socio-economic status, disability, geography, educational attainment, literacy - Speech Link