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Deposited Papers
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Sep. 11 2023

Source Page: Letter dated 29/06/2023 from Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay to All Peers regarding issues raised during the Committee stage (eighth, ninth, and tenth days) of the Online Safety Bill: where the outcomes of the child safety duties are set out in the Bill, the use of copyright and contract law when dealing with images wrongly used on pornographic sites, Ofcom’s annual transparency reports, the ‘scope’ of terms of service in the transparency reporting requirements, Section 110 Notices, coroners and training on social media, business disruption measures against out-of-scope services, ensuring researchers can safely receive and use data, VPNs, the interaction of Clause 162 with the illegal content duty, non-regulated services outside the UK's jurisdiction that promote self-harm content, prosecutions under the Suicide Act, people who create algorithms that disseminate content that meets the threshold in the self-harm offence. Incl. annex.
Document: Letter-to-Peers.pdf (PDF)
Deposited Papers
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Sep. 11 2023

Source Page: Letter dated 12/07/2023 from Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay to All Peers regarding issues raised during the Report stage (first day) of the Online Safety Bill: meetings with those working on the front line of self-harm and suicide prvention, setting categorisation thresholds for companies, expectations for services which already prohibit content, identity verification. Incl. annex. 4p.
Document: LettertoPeers.pdf (PDF)
Deposited Papers
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Sep. 11 2023

Source Page: Letter dated 04/09/2023 from Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay to All Peers regarding Government Amendments at Third Reading for the Online Safety Bill: Secretary of State’s powers, remote access for algorithmic testing, threatening communications. Letter incl. commitment to deposit 7 clarificatory letters sent during the Bill’s Committee and Report stages [DEP2023-0708, DEP2023-0709, DEP2023-0710, DEP2023-0711, DEP2023-0713, DEP2023-0714, DEP2023-0652],2p.
Document: Letter_to_Peers.pdf (PDF)
Deposited Papers
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Sep. 11 2023

Source Page: Letter dated 19/07/2023 from Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay to All Peers regarding issues raised during the Report Stage (second and third days) of the Online Safety Bill: privacy duties in regards to age verification measures, redress for parents when trying to access data relating to a deceased child, The Conservative Woman website, differences in powers to direct, the Bill’s approach to provider contentbsite, a mechanism for disputes in relation to decisions about recognised news publishers, Amendment 180A and the Bill’s approach to animal trafficking, the consultation process for regulations about reports to the National Crime Agency. 6p.
Document: Letter_to_Peers.pdf (PDF)
Deposited Papers
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Sep. 11 2023

Source Page: Letter dated 26/05/2023 from Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay to All Peers regarding issues raised during the Committee Stage (seventh day) of the Online Safety Bill: issues relating to devolution, applying the Bill to the Bailiwick of Guernsey or the Isle of Man, how suicide and self harm material is covered by the Bill, parliamentary approval should Ofcom negotiate contracted duties with charities. 4p.
Document: Letter-to-Peers.pdf (PDF)
Deposited Papers
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Sep. 11 2023

Source Page: Letter dated 27/04/2023 from Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay to All Peers regarding issues raised during the Committee stage (second day) of the Online Safety Bill: whether services such as Skyscanner would be classed as search services, the business disruption measures and app stores, the duty on Category 1 services to publish a summary of their risk assessment, if Twitter started publishing pornography on its service. 2p.
Document: Letter-to-Peers.pdf (PDF)
Deposited Papers
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Sep. 11 2023

Source Page: Letter dated 18/05/2023 from Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay to All Peers regarding issues raised during the Committee Stage (third, fourth, fifth and sixth days) of the Online Safety Bill: access to information in private settings, Lord Clement-Jones’s proposed amendments, llegal content originating overseas, the purpose of clause 11(14), child safety duties and VPNs, Ofcom and companies taking alternative approaches, user verification provisions in relation to Meta, European Convention on Human Rights, school children enrolled in computing classes, fraudulent advertisements. 7p.
Document: Letter-to-Peers.pdf (PDF)
Deposited Papers
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Aug. 30 2023

Source Page: Framework document 2023-26: Department for Culture, Media & Sport and The National Archives. 28p.
Document: The_National_Archives_and_DCMS_Framework_Document_Final.pdf (PDF)
Deposited Papers
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Aug. 18 2023

Source Page: Accounting Officer Assessment: NHM Unlocked Programme. 4p.
Document: Accounting_Officer_Assessment_Natural_History_Museum_Unlocked.pdf (PDF)
Deposited Papers
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Aug. 01 2023

Source Page: Letter dated 25/07/2023 from Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay to peers regarding issues raised in the Online Safety Bill report stage debates (fourth and fifth days). 8p.
Document: Peers.pdf (PDF)