Llun, 5 Rhagfyr 2022
The following Member made and subscribed the Affirmation required by law: Samantha Dixon, for City of Chester.
The Secretary of State was asked—
What assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of real-term reductions in local housing allowance rates on levels of poverty.
Whether his Department is taking steps to support parents in receipt of universal credit with the financial transition when a full-time caring role changes following the death of a child with a...
What steps his Department is taking to support people on low incomes with the cost of living.
What assessment he has made of the potential merits of reducing the universal credit taper rate on the levels of people’s incomes.
What assessment his Department has made of the potential effect of the cost of childcare on incentives for people to transfer from universal credit into work.
What assessment he has made with Cabinet colleagues of the adequacy of levels of benefit payments to support people with disabilities with the cost of energy.
If he will take steps to compensate women born on or after 6 April 1950 affected by changes to the state pension age.
What steps his Department is taking to reduce benefit fraud.
What recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of processing times for personal independence payments.
What steps his Department is taking to support pensioners with increases in the cost of living.
What progress his Department has made on increasing the number of people with disabilities in work.
If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities.
Ordered, That the Order of 12 July 2022 (Online Safety Bill: Programme (No.2)) be varied as follows: (1) In paragraph (2), the words “and Third Reading” shall be omitted. (2) In...
[Relevant documents: Report of the Joint Committee on the Draft Online Safety Bill, Session 2021-22: Draft Online Safety Bill, HC 609, and the Government Response, CP 640; First Report of the...
“(1) If OFCOM consider that it is necessary and proportionate to do so, they may give a notice described in subsection (2), (3) or (4) relating to a regulated user-to-user service or a...
‘(1) OFCOM may give a notice under section (Notices to deal with terrorism content or CSEA content (or both))(1) to a provider relating to a service or part of a service only after giving a...
‘(1) OFCOM must produce and publish a report assessing the impact of the regulatory framework provided for in this Act on the availability and treatment of news publisher content and...
‘In Schedule 15 to the Enterprise Act 2002 (enactments relevant to provisions about disclosure of information), at the appropriate place insert— ‘Online Safety Act...
‘(1) A power conferred by Chapter 6 of Part 7 (enforcement powers) to give a notice to a provider of a regulated service is to be read as including power to give a notice to a person who...
‘Schedule (Amendments of Part 4B of the Communications Act) contains amendments of Part 4B of the Communications Act.’—(Paul Scully.) This new clause introduces a new Schedule...
‘(1) Schedule (Video-sharing platform services: transitional provision etc) contains transitional, transitory and saving provision— (a) about the application of this Act and Part 4B...
‘(1) This section applies where— (a) OFCOM have given a person (and not withdrawn) any of the following— (i) a confirmation decision; (ii) a penalty notice under section 119;...
‘(1) A recognised news publisher cannot commit an offence under section 152. (2) An offence under section 152 cannot be committed by the holder of a licence under the Broadcasting Act 1990...
‘(1) A person (A) commits an offence if— (a) A sends a communication by electronic means which consists of or includes flashing images (see subsection (13)), (b) either condition 1 or...
‘(1) In the Suicide Act 1961, after section 3 insert— “3A Communication offence for encouraging or assisting self-harm (1) A person (“D”) commits an offence...
‘(1) This section applies where OFCOM considers that there are reasonable grounds for believing that a provider of a regulated service has failed, or is failing, to comply with any...
(1) There is to be a body corporate (“the Advocacy Body”) to represent interests of child users of regulated services. (2) A “child user”— (a) means any person aged...
Amendment made: 234, page 45, line 2, at end insert— “(9) This section is subject to Part 2 of Schedule (Video-sharing platform services: transitional provision...
Amendments made: 102, page 72, line 28, leave out paragraph (a) and insert— “(a) the risks of harm to individuals in the United Kingdom presented by illegal...
Amendments made: 107, page 73, line 38, leave out subsection (1) and insert— “(1) As soon as reasonably practicable after OFCOM have published the first risk...
Amendment made: 113, page 75, line 38, at end insert— “(fa) the purpose of assessing whether to give a notice under section (Notices to deal with terrorism content...
Amendments made: 114, page 77, line 36, leave out “either or both” and insert “any”. This amendment is consequential on Amendment 116. Amendment...
Amendment made: 117, page 87, line 9, leave out clause 104.—(Paul Scully.) This amendment leaves out existing clause 104, which is replaced by NC11 and NC12.
Amendments made: 118, page 88, line 40, at beginning insert “In the case of a notice requiring the use of accredited technology,”. This amendment ensures that the...
Amendments made: 120, page 89, line 47, at end insert— “(4A) A notice given to a provider of a Part 3 service requiring the use of accredited technology is to be...
Amendments made: 126, page 90, line 42, leave out from “must” to end of line 44 and insert “carry out a review of the provider’s compliance with the...
Amendment 174, page 93, line 38, at end insert— “Section (Duties to protect news publisher content) News publisher content” This amendment ensures that Ofcom are able to use...
Amendments made: 130, page 96, line 40, leave out “illegal content” and insert “matters required to be covered by an illegal content risk assessment”....
Amendments made: 212, page 101, line 16, leave out “intend” and insert “propose”. This amendment is a technical amendment and ensures that clause 119...
Amendment made: 135, page 101, line 37, leave out from beginning to “OFCOM”.—(Paul Scully.) This is about a penalty notice which OFCOM may give for failure...
Amendment made: 214, page 113, line 3, after “person” insert “(and not withdrawn)”.—(Paul Scully.) This amendment provides that OFCOM’s...
Amendment made: 175, page 118, line 29, at end insert— “(aa) a report under section (OFCOM’s reports about news publisher content and journalistic content)...
Amendment made: 176, page 126, line 36, at end insert— “(5A) In carrying out the review, the Secretary of State must take into account any report published by...
Amendment made: 239, page 127, line 11, leave out clause 151.—(Paul Scully.) This amendment omits clause 151, which had introduced a new offence relating to harmful...
Amendments made: 138, page 128, line 22, leave out subsections (4) and (5). This amendment leaves out material which now appears, with changes, in NC52. Amendment...
Amendment made: 215, page 129, line 29, leave out “maximum summary term for either-way offences” and insert “general limit in a magistrates’...
Amendments made: 241, page 129, line 33, leave out “151” and insert “152”. This amendment is consequential on the omission of clause 151 (see Amendment...
Amendments made: 246, page 130, line 31, leave out “151(1),”. This amendment is consequential on the omission of clause 151 (see Amendment 239). Amendment 222,...
Amendments made: 248, page 130, line 41, leave out “151,”. Clause 156 is about the liability of corporate officers etc for offences. This amendment removes a reference to clause 151...
Amendments made: 249, page 132, line 3, leave out from beginning to end of line 4 and insert “Section 127(2)(a) and (b) of the Communications Act (false messages) is repealed so far as it...
Amendments made: 252, page 132, line 10, leave out “151,”. Clause 159 introduces a Schedule of consequential amendments. This amendment omits the reference to clause 151...
Amendment made: 229, page 139, line 8, at end insert— “(3) In this Act, omit— (a) section (Amendments of Part 4B of the Communications Act), and (b) Schedule (Amendments of Part...
Amendments made: 235, page 147, line 1, at end insert— “(ca) regulations under section (Repeal of Part 4B of the Communications Act: transitional provision etc)(2),”. This...
Amendment made: 237, page 161, line 39, at end insert— “(3A) Regulations under subsection (2) may not bring section 172 into force before the end of the period of six months beginning...
“1 Part 4B of the Communications Act (video-sharing platform services) is amended in accordance with this Schedule. 2 In section 368U (maintenance of list of providers)— (a) omit...
“Part 1 Interpretation 1 (1) In this Schedule, “pre-existing Part 4B service” means— (a) an internet service which— (i) is a video-sharing platform service by reason...
Amendment made: 238, page 175, line 11, at end insert— “Part 2A Pre-existing Part 4B Services Interpretation of this Part 6A (1) In this Part, “pre-existing...
Application of paragraphs 6F to 6H 6E (1) This paragraph and paragraphs 6F to 6H apply in relation to a pre-existing Part 4B service which— (a) is within the definition in paragraph (a) of...
Application of paragraphs 6J to 6N 6I (1) Paragraphs 6J to 6N make provision about the timing of assessments in the case of a regulated user-to-user service which includes a pre-existing Part 4B...
Amendment made: 230, page 212, leave out lines 13 to 18.—(Paul Scully.) This amendment is consequential on NC42.
Amendments made: 253, page 212, line 36, at end insert— “Football Spectators Act 1989 A1 In Schedule 1 to the Football Spectators Act 1989 (football banning...
I beg to move, That the following provisions shall apply to the Online Safety Bill for the purpose of varying and supplementing the Order of 19 April 2022 in the last session of Parliament...
(1) The Bill shall be re-committed to a Public Bill Committee in respect of the following Clauses and Schedules— (a) in Part 3, Clauses 11 to 14, 17 to 20, 29, 45, 54 and 55 of the Bill as...
(2) Proceedings in the Public Bill Committee on re-committal shall (so far as not previously concluded) be brought to a conclusion on Thursday 15 December 2022. (3) The Public Bill Committee...
(4) Proceedings on Consideration following re-committal shall (so far as not previously concluded) be brought to a conclusion one hour before the moment of interruption on the day on which those...
Ordered, That, notwithstanding the Resolution of this House of 11 July, it be an instruction to the Joint Committee on the Draft Mental Health Bill that it should report by 13 January...
Motion made, and Question put forthwith ( Standing Order No. 118(6)),
That the draft Prescribed Persons (Reports on Disclosures of Information) (Amendment) Regulations 2022, which were laid before this House on 18 October, be approved.—(Robert Largan.)...
That the draft Merchant Shipping (Standards of Training, Certification and Watchkeeping) Regulations 2022, which were laid before this House on 31 October, be approved.—(Robert Largan.)...
That the draft Agricultural Holdings (Fee) Regulations 2022, which were laid before this House on 20 October, be approved.—(Robert Largan.) The Deputy Speaker’s opinion as to the...
That the draft Combined Authorities (Mayoral Elections) (Amendment) Order 2022, which was laid before this House on 3 November, be approved.—(Robert Largan.) The Deputy Speaker’s...
That the draft Local Authorities (Mayoral Elections) (England and Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2022, which were laid before this House on 3 November, be approved.—(Robert Largan.) The...
That the draft Police and Crime Commissioner Elections and Welsh Forms (Amendment) Order 2022, which was laid before this House on 1 November, be approved.—(Robert Largan.) The Deputy...
That the draft Export Control (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2022, which were laid before this House on 20 October, be approved.—(Robert Largan.) Question agreed to. Motion made, and...
That the draft Internal Markets Information System Regulation (Amendment etc.) Regulations 2021, which were laid before this House on 20 July 2021 in the last Session of Parliament, be...
I rise to present the petition for the residents of the Rotherham constituency regarding buses in South Yorkshire. Just prior to the pandemic, I ran a major survey of constituents’...
Motion made, and Question proposed, That this House do now adjourn.—(Robert Largan.)
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