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Debate on bill on Tuesday, 6 April 2010, in the House of Commons, led by Ben Bradshaw. The answering member was Jeremy Hunt.

Digital Economy Bill [Lords]

Digital Economy Bill (HL). Second reading. Agreed on question. Money resolution agreed on question. Ways and means resolution agreed on question.

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Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
508 c836-926 
Session
2009-10
Department
Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Legislative stage
Second reading
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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Proceeding contributions
Speaker | 508 c850 (Link to this contribution) Order. I remind all right hon. and hon. Members that Mr. Speaker has imposed a 12-minute limit on Ba...
Speaker | 508 c860 (Link to this contribution) Order. I remind the House that Mr. Speaker had imposed a time limit of 12 minutes on Back Benchers' ...
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John Whittingdale | 508 c925 (Link to this contribution) There is concern among some who have looked at the Bill that clause 46 might have similar sweeping p...
Stephen Timms | 508 c924-5 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend, in his thoughtful speech, made his position clear. I say to him that our choice is b...
Stephen Timms | 508 c923 (Link to this contribution) But the author of the content will not fall foul of the proposal. I do not imagine that the right ho...
Stephen Timms | 508 c923 (Link to this contribution) That money will be available, on the hon. Gentleman's proposition, only in the new licence fee settl...
Jeremy Hunt | 508 c923 (Link to this contribution) We do not, which is why we have said that we think that the digital switchover surplus should be use...
Stephen Timms | 508 c923 (Link to this contribution) I need to make some progress. Nothing illuminates the vacuity of the Conservative party's policy pl...
Stephen Timms | 508 c924 (Link to this contribution) The scale of funding that the Conservative party is talking about is certainly not available until t...
Lord Vaizey of Didcot | 508 c924 (Link to this contribution) How is the Minister proposing to use the digital switchover surplus for IFNCs, given that he has jus...
Stephen Timms | 508 c923-4 (Link to this contribution) We certainly will press the clause as far as we can. We have heard the Conservatives describe their ...
Lord Foster of Bath | 508 c923 (Link to this contribution) The Minister knows that I entirely agree with him on that point, but the hon. Member for Selby (Mr. ...
Lord Watson of Wyre Forest | 508 c924 (Link to this contribution) I have great admiration for how my right hon. Friend is putting his case, but I still have grave res...
Alun Michael | 508 c921 (Link to this contribution) Will my right hon. Friend also undertake to require Ofcom to engage those bodies in designing someth...
Stephen Timms | 508 c920-1 (Link to this contribution) We have had a good debate about the Bill. My hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham, Erdington (Mr. S...
Peter Luff | 508 c921 (Link to this contribution) Will small businesses be included in that list?
Stephen Timms | 508 c921 (Link to this contribution) Yes, it will be important for Ofcom to have exactly that kind of discussion, to ensure that it draws...
Lord Redwood | 508 c922 (Link to this contribution) The Minister cannot say that I do not understand the matter. I am asking him how far someone could g...
Stephen Timms | 508 c922 (Link to this contribution) I think that the right hon. Gentleman is barking up the wrong tree. The owner of the copyright—the p...
Stephen Timms | 508 c921 (Link to this contribution) I am not sure which small businesses the hon. Gentleman is referring to—public wi-fi services?
Lord Redwood | 508 c922 (Link to this contribution) Will the Minister explain what would happen if someone had paid for an article or some content from ...
Stephen Timms | 508 c922 (Link to this contribution) There will certainly need to be discussion with them, yes. Unlawful file sharing using peer-to-peer...
Sion Simon | 508 c880 (Link to this contribution) I will give way for 10 seconds.
Jeremy Corbyn | 508 c880 (Link to this contribution) Is it really right to contemplate cutting people off from access to the internet at the same time as...
Sion Simon | 508 c880-1 (Link to this contribution) This Bill is not about cutting people off from the internet. There is a very long process for that, ...
Lord Vaizey of Didcot | 508 c881 (Link to this contribution) As I am not summing up for the Opposition Front-Bench team, I wonder whether the hon. Gentleman will...
Sion Simon | 508 c881 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is very kind; I do not deserve such kindness, but he is a very old friend of mine...
David Lammy | 508 c881 (Link to this contribution) As my hon. Friend mentioned me, I just want to associate myself with his remarks on copyright and al...
Sion Simon | 508 c881 (Link to this contribution) On all counts, I am very grateful and stand roundly corrected. Let me just say in conclusion that t...
Pete Wishart | 508 c881-3 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Member for Birmingham, Erdington (Mr. Simon) on making such a fine final spe...
Pete Wishart | 508 c883 (Link to this contribution) That is the thing. All the e-mails that I have received keep on telling me that the Government's pro...
Pete Wishart | 508 c884 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman, and I pay tribute to the work that he does as chair of the all-...
Sion Simon | 508 c884 (Link to this contribution) If someone has a relationship with BT and does not pay their bill, what happens? What is the process...
Michael Connarty | 508 c883 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to another vice-chairman of the Performers Alliance group in this House for giving way...
Michael Connarty | 508 c889 (Link to this contribution) I respect my hon. Friend's forward thinking, but he obviously has not studied his history. The enclo...
Lord Watson of Wyre Forest | 508 c889-90 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend and I could debate the historical complexities of the enclosure movement, but I have ...
Pete Wishart | 508 c884-6 (Link to this contribution) As I understand it, if someone does not pay their bill to BT or TalkTalk for their internet service ...
Lord Redwood | 508 c893-4 (Link to this contribution) That would be most unusual. I have served on a good many order-making Committees in my time, and one...
Lord Redwood | 508 c890-3 (Link to this contribution) It is a disgrace that the House is not treated with courtesy by the Government. It is quite wrong th...
Richard Younger-Ross | 508 c893 (Link to this contribution) Does the right hon. Gentleman accept that any draft orders under the Bill, if it goes forward, shoul...
Lord Watson of Wyre Forest | 508 c897-8 (Link to this contribution) To stretch the metaphor used by my hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham, Erdington (Mr. Simon), I f...
John Robertson | 508 c898 (Link to this contribution) I understand what my hon. Friend says. I will not go back to the Star Wars reference, because it mig...
Michael Connarty | 508 c898 (Link to this contribution) I compliment my hon. Friend on the part of his speech that I heard earlier. This is a fringe discuss...
John Robertson | 508 c894-5 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the right hon. Member for Wokingham (Mr. Redwood), because that means tha...
Tobias Ellwood | 508 c895 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has declared his interest in BT, but he also came out with some interesting remar...
John Robertson | 508 c895-7 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for his comments; funnily enough, that is where my speech is going. Part...
Eric Joyce | 508 c897 (Link to this contribution) I completely sympathise with what my hon. Friend says about the much needed earnings of Joe Bloggs, ...
Fiona Mactaggart | 508 c898-9 (Link to this contribution) In my maiden speech, I spoke about the human right to read, because it seemed to me that access to t...
Neil Gerrard | 508 c902-3 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman may say that, but I suspect that it had rather more to do with a campaign that ca...
Neil Gerrard | 508 c902 (Link to this contribution) I notice the Liberal Democrats are still denying that there might be one. I am interested in their p...
Fiona Mactaggart | 508 c899-900 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has an advantage over me, as does BT, because they have seen a new version of tha...
Neil Gerrard | 508 c901-2 (Link to this contribution) I shall try to be brief, because many of the issues that I wanted to discuss have been covered. This...
Fiona Mactaggart | 508 c899 (Link to this contribution) I shall give way—although the hon. Gentleman did not give way to me.
Lord Foster of Bath | 508 c899 (Link to this contribution) I gave way to Members on numerous occasions, and I am therefore particularly grateful to the hon. La...
Lord Foster of Bath | 508 c903 (Link to this contribution) My understanding of what the Leader of the House said is that there will be two hours in total for t...
David Cairns | 508 c903-7 (Link to this contribution) So many hon. Members, including my hon. Friend the Member for Walthamstow (Mr. Gerrard), began their...
Neil Gerrard | 508 c903 (Link to this contribution) If that is the case—I have not seen the motion—it illustrates exactly the point that I am making and...
Lord Foster of Bath | 508 c909 (Link to this contribution) We are greatly enjoying the hon. Gentleman's speech, but I should gently point out to him that Richa...
John Grogan | 508 c907-9 (Link to this contribution) It is a great pleasure to follow my hon. Friend the Member for Inverclyde (David Cairns), who made a...
John Grogan | 508 c909-10 (Link to this contribution) Exactly, and if I go any further I will be accused of being a conspiracy theorist, because Mr. Molle...
John Grogan | 508 c910 (Link to this contribution) We have to address the issue of illegal file sharing. My hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham, Erdi...
John Grogan | 508 c910 (Link to this contribution) There is a whole list. Lord Mandelson is a very important figure and he shifted the Government's pol...
John Grogan | 508 c911 (Link to this contribution) I know that they put it in, but there is joy in heaven when a sinner repenteth. At the very least, I...
Eric Joyce | 508 c911 (Link to this contribution) I am very pleased to be able to follow a number of high-quality speeches. It seems to me that everyo...
Sion Simon | 508 c911 (Link to this contribution) But is it not the case that after a year, and lots of letters, people will get a first right of appe...
Sion Simon | 508 c912 (Link to this contribution) I apologise for arguing with my hon. Friend the Member for West Bromwich, East (Mr. Watson) through ...
Eric Joyce | 508 c912 (Link to this contribution) I profoundly agree with my hon. Friend. That is precisely what most people out there would say; inde...
Lord Watson of Wyre Forest | 508 c912 (Link to this contribution) A number of hon. Members on both sides of the House have likened copyright infringement to shoplifti...
Eric Joyce | 508 c912 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is correct, but I do not regard a tribunal as the same thing at all. Things are bein...
Adam Afriyie | 508 c913 (Link to this contribution) It has been a very interesting debate, with a single theme unifying the contributions from Back and ...
Eric Joyce | 508 c912-3 (Link to this contribution) Indeed—they go to court. They get their day in court. Would we pass legislation saying, "Let's not b...
John Grogan | 508 c913 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving way, but a further point of clarity would be useful. ...
Adam Afriyie | 508 c913 (Link to this contribution) We have made it very clear where the red lines are. We are very keen that this Bill does get to Comm...
Sion Simon | 508 c913 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry to interrupt the hon. Gentleman so early in his remarks, but we all know that the Governm...
Adam Afriyie | 508 c913 (Link to this contribution) That was a great attempt at distortion and distraction, but I assure the hon. Gentleman that we will...
Adam Afriyie | 508 c914-5 (Link to this contribution) I should like to make a little more headway and then I will give way several times, as we shall not ...
Adam Afriyie | 508 c914 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for recognising that I misspoke. I meant to refer to clause 29, as oppose...
Adam Afriyie | 508 c915-6 (Link to this contribution) I thank the right hon. Gentleman for that correction. He gave a considered and balanced view. He was...
Peter Luff | 508 c916 (Link to this contribution) I am most grateful to my hon. Friend for his kind remarks. I should warn him not to praise me too mu...
Adam Afriyie | 508 c916 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for the warning, but his observations were balanced and fair, and he recognis...
Pete Wishart | 508 c916 (Link to this contribution) I have been even more disgraced on Twitter this evening. I do not mind what was said about my contri...
Alun Michael | 508 c915 (Link to this contribution) May I correct the hon. Gentleman's geography? Penrith is not within the boundaries of my constituenc...
Adam Afriyie | 508 c917 (Link to this contribution) I share those concerns. We are keen that we use whatever time is available at this fag end of a Parl...
Baroness Hoey | 508 c917 (Link to this contribution) I am a little concerned because the crux of much of the debate has been the way in which the Bill is...
Adam Afriyie | 508 c916 (Link to this contribution) I am quite surprised that the hon. Lady asks an Opposition Front Bencher that question when her Gove...
Fiona Mactaggart | 508 c916 (Link to this contribution) I am interested in the hon. Gentleman's reference to red lines. It seems that he is able, without th...
Adam Afriyie | 508 c916 (Link to this contribution) The shirts and blouses that Members of Parliament may wear are important international issues, and I...
John Robertson | 508 c918 (Link to this contribution) Far be it from me to correct the hon. Gentleman, but I said that although I do not have a problem wi...
Adam Afriyie | 508 c918 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for the clarification.
Lord Watson of Wyre Forest | 508 c917 (Link to this contribution) But for perhaps the first time in the hon. Gentleman's parliamentary career, he can stop this if he ...
Adam Afriyie | 508 c917-8 (Link to this contribution) My blood is pumping, but it was pumping before the hon. Gentleman's words of encouragement. I assure...
Adam Afriyie | 508 c917 (Link to this contribution) I apologise to the hon. Gentleman—[Interruption.] Yes, I am obsessed with Penrith. I made my notes i...
Fiona Mactaggart | 508 c918 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman misquoted me. I did not say that the Government were being feeble. I said that Ba...
Adam Afriyie | 508 c919-20 (Link to this contribution) That is a curious comment, given that it is the hon. Lady's Government who have introduced the Bill ...
Lord Redwood | 508 c918 (Link to this contribution) The main issue that I was raising in my speech, as my hon. Friend may recollect, related to clauses ...
Adam Afriyie | 508 c918 (Link to this contribution) It would be an enormous challenge, which is why we have left open the opportunity to revisit the Bil...
Sion Simon | 508 c880 (Link to this contribution) I agree, but my point is that it is not an either/or choice. We need fundamental reform and a whole ...
Alun Michael | 508 c880 (Link to this contribution) On the point about the only answer being to enforce the law, may I repeat what I said earlier, which...
Sion Simon | 508 c880 (Link to this contribution) Yes, and we need to share in the way that we legislate, but that does not mean that we abrogate the ...
Alun Michael | 508 c880 (Link to this contribution) And share in the way that we legislate.
Jeremy Corbyn | 508 c880 (Link to this contribution) Will my hon. Friend give way for 30 seconds?
Sion Simon | 508 c879 (Link to this contribution) Obviously, I do not claim to know what the technical measures are, but when I am told that they exis...
Sion Simon | 508 c879 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend cannot prove that to me, however, as I am not going to give way to him again because ...
Jeremy Hunt | 508 c844-5 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right, and that is why we cannot support clause 43. We would like to su...
Julian Lewis | 508 c844 (Link to this contribution) I am delighted that my hon. Friend has drawn attention to that matter. I know that the photographic ...
Jeremy Hunt | 508 c845 (Link to this contribution) I share my hon. Friend's concerns, and the principles that he has outlined are, broadly speaking, th...
Lord Redwood | 508 c845 (Link to this contribution) I think what people outside the House want is an assurance that the good, as well as the bad, will b...
Jeremy Hunt | 508 c845-6 (Link to this contribution) We are stating categorically that we reserve the right to review anything that becomes law as a resu...
Brian Binley | 508 c846 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is a great supporter of the music industry, which at the moment is losing about £200 ...
Jeremy Hunt | 508 c846 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right to draw attention to the issue of costs, because that is very important. The...
William Cash | 508 c846 (Link to this contribution) In relation to the clauses that deal with infrastructure, does my hon. Friend agree that there is a ...
Jeremy Hunt | 508 c846-7 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an important point, and I commend to him what the Mayor of London has done to t...
Peter Luff | 508 c843 (Link to this contribution) I cannot resist the pun: another of the ducked decisions is on ducts. Is my hon. Friend aware that a...
Jeremy Hunt | 508 c843 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right, and there is another reason, which I shall come to in a minute, ...
Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton | 508 c843 (Link to this contribution) On the subject of the Government ducking issues, does my hon. Friend not feel that it is incumbent o...
Jeremy Hunt | 508 c843 (Link to this contribution) I shall give way in a moment. On subsidy, we find the misguided attempt to prop up ITV regional news...
Lord Watson of Wyre Forest | 508 c843 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that the hon. Gentleman would wish to acknowledge the great progress that has been made on...
Jeremy Hunt | 508 c843 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a very good point, and indeed the Select Committee on Business, Innovation and ...
Jeremy Hunt | 508 c844 (Link to this contribution) As ever, my right hon. Friend makes an important point. Orphan works legislation is incredibly impor...
Jeremy Hunt | 508 c844 (Link to this contribution) First, I should say that I am prepared to concede that some progress has been made in opening up Gov...
Lord Arbuthnot of Edrom | 508 c844 (Link to this contribution) Is there not one other thing that the Secretary of State ducked: an explanation of why this Bill has...
Lord Foster of Bath | 508 c855-6 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman would be right if I had total confidence that whoever formed the next Government ...
David Cairns | 508 c856 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman agree that the Conservative party's position had some intellectual coherence...
Lord Foster of Bath | 508 c856 (Link to this contribution) There is a slight mockery in respect of the Conservative party's position on BBC funding. The House ...
Lord Vaizey of Didcot | 508 c856 (Link to this contribution) I do not want to interfere in a discussion of Conservative policy that does not involve a Conservati...
Lord Foster of Bath | 508 c856-7 (Link to this contribution) I am coming to that, so if the hon. Gentleman can be patient for a second, he will learn all about i...
Eric Joyce | 508 c857 (Link to this contribution) I accept that progress has been made, but does the hon. Gentleman agree that it is significant, to u...
Lord Foster of Bath | 508 c857 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for raising that point, and that is why I want to outline these ...
Pete Wishart | 508 c857-8 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman will understand my difficulty in trying to understand Liberal policy, given the n...
Lord Watson of Wyre Forest | 508 c858 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is still a great man, but I have been around the houses a little bit in the past ...
Lord Foster of Bath | 508 c858 (Link to this contribution) The Bill will have Liberal Democrat support as it goes through the wash-up, subject to the three con...
Lord Redwood | 508 c854 (Link to this contribution) Is it not an unprecedented discourtesy to the House of Commons for a Government to introduce the Sec...
Lord Foster of Bath | 508 c854 (Link to this contribution) I agree entirely with the right hon. Gentleman. As I pointed out earlier, given the enormity of the ...
Lord Foster of Bath | 508 c853-4 (Link to this contribution) It is totally inappropriate for a Bill as important as this to be given so little time for debate in...
Sion Simon | 508 c854 (Link to this contribution) Having spoken so eloquently and rightly about Channel 4, will the hon. Gentleman say a few words abo...
Lord Foster of Bath | 508 c855 (Link to this contribution) I will, in so far as to say that as we move into a digital era, updating all those things is crucial...
Lord Foster of Bath | 508 c854 (Link to this contribution) I give way to the hon. Gentleman who served valiantly as a Minister for a brief period on this impor...
Lord Watson of Wyre Forest | 508 c855 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is a great man. I find it ironic that I so often follow him these days. He says t...
Lord Foster of Bath | 508 c855 (Link to this contribution) I give way to another hon. Member who has worked hard in that area.
Robert Key | 508 c849 (Link to this contribution) Is my hon. Friend content with clause 31, on the digital switchover? It is estimated that the costs ...
Jeremy Hunt | 508 c849 (Link to this contribution) I share my hon. Friend's concerns, because I think that clause is so weak that it is virtually meani...
Jeremy Hunt | 508 c850 (Link to this contribution) I will give way to the former Minister with responsibility for creative industries, and then I will ...
Jeremy Hunt | 508 c849 (Link to this contribution) I shall give way, but for the last time.
Jeremy Hunt | 508 c850 (Link to this contribution) First, let me say that when the hon. Gentleman stepped down as Minister for the creative industries,...
Sion Simon | 508 c850 (Link to this contribution) Given the hon. Gentleman's desire to move to DAB plus, what does he suggest the 8 million people in ...
Alun Michael | 508 c851-3 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Member for South-West Surrey (Mr. Hunt) ended his speech by referring to the fast-moving an...
Fiona Mactaggart | 508 c848 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has been explicit in saying that his party will resist clause 43, and some other ...
Jeremy Hunt | 508 c847 (Link to this contribution) All I would say to the hon. Gentleman is that, thanks to the actions of the last Conservative Govern...
Baroness Hoey | 508 c847 (Link to this contribution) Will the shadow Secretary of State reiterate a point? He probably realises that the UK photography i...
John Robertson | 508 c847 (Link to this contribution) It is not for me to give the hon. Gentleman a history lesson, but he might perhaps remember what hap...
Jeremy Hunt | 508 c849 (Link to this contribution) I would like to know whether the hon. Gentleman is asking for a super-affirmative resolution on the ...
Lord Foster of Bath | 508 c849 (Link to this contribution) I note the hon. Gentleman's point about ensuring that if these measures go ahead the regulations tha...
Jeremy Hunt | 508 c848-9 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my right hon. Friend for his intervention. I share his concerns about the process, ...
David Davis | 508 c848 (Link to this contribution) I am full of admiration as my hon. Friend has striven to make the Bill workable, but I am still conc...
Jeremy Hunt | 508 c848 (Link to this contribution) I absolutely can explain the difference. The measures to which the hon. Lady refers are so critical ...
Keith Vaz | 508 c836 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend is right to mention the success of the creative industries. With reference to o...
Ben Bradshaw | 508 c836 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that there is an innocent explanation.
Ben Bradshaw | 508 c837 (Link to this contribution) Indeed, and there are important provisions in the Bill that will help strengthen the protection of c...
Ben Bradshaw | 508 c836 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time. It is important to acknowledge at the outse...
William Cash | 508 c836 (Link to this contribution) Will the Secretary of State be kind enough to explain why his name did not initially appear next to ...
Ben Bradshaw | 508 c836 (Link to this contribution) Pagers are long obsolete, as the hon. Gentleman will know. Most of us, and certainly our children, ...
Ben Bradshaw | 508 c837 (Link to this contribution) I do not want to read out the entire list of Bills. I have a much longer list, but I will let the ho...
John Whittingdale | 508 c837 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Secretary of State. I was the shadow Secretary of State during the wash-up last...
Ben Bradshaw | 508 c837 (Link to this contribution) I give way to the Chairman of the Culture, Media and Sport Committee.
Ben Bradshaw | 508 c838 (Link to this contribution) With respect to my hon. Friend, I suggest that in her constituency many ordinary people, as she refe...
Ben Bradshaw | 508 c837-8 (Link to this contribution) No. I shall make some progress. Many hon. Members want to speak in the debate, and if I take too man...
Ben Bradshaw | 508 c837 (Link to this contribution) We are all aware of the e-mails with which we have been inundated in recent days. I am sure my hon. ...
Lord Watson of Wyre Forest | 508 c837 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend agree that there might be a deal with the Tory Front-Bench and the Lib Dem...
Ben Bradshaw | 508 c839 (Link to this contribution) I shall give way one more time and then make some progress.
Alun Michael | 508 c839 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend accept that what is important in terms of this Bill is putting a framework...
Ben Bradshaw | 508 c839 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend is absolutely right about that. During the Bill's passage through the other pl...
John Robertson | 508 c840 (Link to this contribution) Although I accept everything that my right hon. Friend says, and accept everything behind those comm...
Ben Bradshaw | 508 c840 (Link to this contribution) With respect, I must say that my hon. Friend is wrong. The Bill does not contain any provision that ...
Mike Weir | 508 c840 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?
Ben Bradshaw | 508 c838 (Link to this contribution) I give way to the hon. Member for Mid-Worcestershire (Peter Luff), the Chairman of the Business, Inn...
Peter Luff | 508 c838 (Link to this contribution) Does the Secretary of State acknowledge also the role of the Department for Business, Innovation and...
Ben Bradshaw | 508 c838 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that the Under-Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, my right hon. Frien...
Alun Michael | 508 c839 (Link to this contribution) Will my right hon. Friend give way?
Jeremy Hunt | 508 c842 (Link to this contribution) I am very happy to give that assurance, because we want Channel 4 to provide strong competition for ...
John Hemming | 508 c842 (Link to this contribution) I refer the House to my declaration of interests, which refers to my rather minor activity as a musi...
Jeremy Hunt | 508 c841-2 (Link to this contribution) This afternoon, on the very day when time has finally been called on a weak, dithering and incompete...
David Cairns | 508 c842 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman take this opportunity, then, categorically to rule out the privatisation of ...
Jeremy Hunt | 508 c842 (Link to this contribution) I share the hon. Gentleman's concerns. The presumption should be that the public have a right to see...
Ben Bradshaw | 508 c840 (Link to this contribution) I shall not. I shall make some progress if the hon. Gentleman does not mind. I have focused on meas...
Ben Bradshaw | 508 c840-1 (Link to this contribution) No, I shall not give way. Many people want to speak in this debate and I want to make progress so th...
Lord Foster of Bath | 508 c858 (Link to this contribution) I give way briefly, but I am keen to make progress as others want to speak.
Sion Simon | 508 c858 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman will have seen my hon. Friend the Member for West Bromwich, East (Mr. Watson) and...
Lord Foster of Bath | 508 c859 (Link to this contribution) If they do not accept there is a problem, I am not with them.
Sion Simon | 508 c858 (Link to this contribution) Is not the bottom line that they do not agree, and do not accept that there is a problem?
Lord Foster of Bath | 508 c858 (Link to this contribution) I am not trying to get away with anything. I hope the hon. Gentleman, who supports our creative indu...
Lord Foster of Bath | 508 c860 (Link to this contribution) No, I must finish. It is crucial that we find a solution to the concerns of photographers before we ...
Lord Foster of Bath | 508 c860 (Link to this contribution) I do not want to take up the House's time, because we can discuss that issue during our debate about...
John Whittingdale | 508 c863-7 (Link to this contribution) I rise with some sadness to speak about the Bill. There is an awful lot in it that I support and tha...
Derek Wyatt | 508 c861-3 (Link to this contribution) No, not yet. In January this year, Google had a problem in China, and it forgot to think about wher...
Sion Simon | 508 c861 (Link to this contribution) Will my hon. Friend give way on that point?
Derek Wyatt | 508 c860-1 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow my great friend, the hon. Member for Bath (Mr. Foster). Judging by what O...
Derek Wyatt | 508 c860 (Link to this contribution) One problem with the hon. Gentleman's proposal is that many big libraries photograph original photos...
Lord Foster of Bath | 508 c859-60 (Link to this contribution) No. Clause 18 penalises sites that facilitate access or that are used for or in connection with an ...
Lord Watson of Wyre Forest | 508 c876 (Link to this contribution) I admire the hon. Gentleman's point. That message was mixed by Labour spin doctors, then remixed by ...
Peter Luff | 508 c876 (Link to this contribution) I will give way to the hon. Gentleman. I ought to give him a chance to speak up for his party.
Peter Luff | 508 c876-7 (Link to this contribution) Ah, that is a very interesting point. I was with the hon. Gentleman for quite a lot of that interven...
Sion Simon | 508 c872 (Link to this contribution) I suspect that the hon. Gentleman may agree with me. Does he not think that the choice between creat...
Peter Luff | 508 c871-2 (Link to this contribution) It is a great pleasure to speak after the hon. Member for Great Grimsby (Mr. Mitchell). His optimism...
Peter Luff | 508 c872-6 (Link to this contribution) I agree absolutely with the hon. Gentleman, whom I wish had had the tenacity to see this Bill throug...
Austin Mitchell | 508 c867-8 (Link to this contribution) It is rather sad that we should devote one of the last major debates of this Parliament to such a sp...
Austin Mitchell | 508 c868-71 (Link to this contribution) My answer is simple: I do not know. That is why I do not want the Bill to be rushed through; my educ...
Pete Wishart | 508 c868 (Link to this contribution) I am following the hon. Gentleman's remarks with great interest. Does he actually believe that there...
Sion Simon | 508 c879 (Link to this contribution) No, it does not criminalise anybody; all it does is simply seek to enforce the existing law. We shou...
Jeremy Corbyn | 508 c879 (Link to this contribution) I understand the point my hon. Friend is making, but does he not think there is a danger that the Bi...
Sion Simon | 508 c879 (Link to this contribution) It would be un-humble for me to comment on that, but I shall take it as the compliment I assume to h...
Michael Connarty | 508 c879 (Link to this contribution) I am listening with great interest to my hon. Friend and I am a great follower of Star Wars. I reali...
Sion Simon | 508 c878-9 (Link to this contribution) It is not those people who couch the metaphor in these terms; I am articulating the metaphor, but th...
Lord Watson of Wyre Forest | 508 c878 (Link to this contribution) Will my hon. Friend provide me with any example of Steven Spielberg being described as the ultimate ...
Sion Simon | 508 c877-8 (Link to this contribution) In common with my hon. Friend the Member for Sittingbourne and Sheppey (Derek Wyatt), this will be t...
Jeremy Corbyn | 508 c877 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
John Robertson | 508 c897 (Link to this contribution) I understand what my hon. Friend is saying, but it is a little like my hon. Friend the Member for Gr...
Stephen Timms | 508 c925 (Link to this contribution) Yes, I can. Clause 46 gives powers only to make amendments consequential on other parts of the Bill....
Adam Afriyie | 508 c914 (Link to this contribution) I meant to say clauses 1, 29 and 43: those are the ones that we will not allow to go through.
Sion Simon | 508 c883 (Link to this contribution) Has the hon. Gentleman noticed that the people who argue that these measures are far too draconian a...
John Robertson | 508 c898 (Link to this contribution) That needs no answer from me. My hon. Friend is spot on. In conclusion, doing nothing is not an opt...
Pete Wishart | 508 c910 (Link to this contribution) We have heard about the views of all the lobbyists who have been making an impact, but what is the h...
Roger Gale | 508 c845 (Link to this contribution) In business questions, I raised the point that the wash-up is supposed to be for non-contentious mat...
Lord Foster of Bath | 508 c859 (Link to this contribution) I want to make progress and deal with the issue of site blocking. When we got rid of clause 17 in an...
Peter Luff | 508 c877 (Link to this contribution) No, I have already given way twice and I have no more time. I have considerable sympathy with those...
Lord Watson of Wyre Forest | 508 c886-9 (Link to this contribution) It is of great personal amusement to me that I happen to be following the previous two speakers. My ...
Lord Foster of Bath | 508 c914 (Link to this contribution) I apologise for interrupting the hon. Gentleman, but I want to be helpful. He said that the Conserva...
Jeremy Hunt | 508 c848 (Link to this contribution) I am happy to reiterate my opposition to clause 43, and to say that we are not prepared to let it th...
Baroness Hoey | 508 c838 (Link to this contribution) Will the Secretary of State look back in history and see what happens to legislation that gets pushe...
Subjects
Disclosure of information BBC Capital investment Copyright Broadcasting programmes Counterfeit manufacturing Digital broadcasting Channel Four Television Broadband ICT Film Infrastructure Intellectual property Internet Protection Radio Video games Internet service providers
Legislation
Digital Economy Bill (HL) 2009-10
Link
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