Speeches by Aldridge.

“I just want to get this on the record. On Monday I met with Peter Kyle, Secretary of State, specifically on the point of digital ID. The gov.uk app was launched yesterday. With that app launching for the driving licence and the veterans cards, we are introducing digital ID that can be used. This Government are starting…”

“I pay tribute to victims, survivors and campaigners. I am 40 years old and it has taken being that age for me to be able to talk about some of the abuse that happened when I was a child. As one of the countless victims living with the impact of grooming, sexual and psychological abuse, I found it galling to watch Tory …”

“I found it galling that those Members have appointed themselves as defenders of abused people for political gain. Does the Home Secretary agree that neither history nor the British people will be kind to the sickening political opportunism that we have seen from the Conservative and Reform parties?”

“I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Blyth and Ashington (Ian Lavery) for securing this important debate. For five years, I worked as a support worker for children with autism across the north-east, and I have many fond memories of his constituency, in particular Blyth beach. The communities we served there as support…”

“I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Newcastle-under-Lyme (Adam Jogee) on securing this important debate. It is poignant that this debate is happening today, on the 80th anniversary of Victory in Europe Day—a day to commemorate the sacrifice, bravery and resilience of so many, as well as the courage to stand up…”

“You touched on some practicalities there. ICRIR’s chief commissioner has called for the commission’s information-gathering powers to be extended to Ireland. I just wonder if anybody has any thoughts on how that could possibly work. Could negotiating an agreement with Dublin delay the introduction of all the other measu…”

“Thank you for all that you have provided us with so far. This is the last one. What is your view on the Irish Government’s engagement with legacy issues? We were in Dublin recently speaking to them about this. I do not know whether that is an intentional wry smile on David’s face; I am just intrigued.”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Mr Efford. I congratulate the hon. Member for Newton Abbot (Martin Wrigley) and my hon. Friend the Member for Derby South (Baggy Shanker) on securing this important debate, and so many others on campaigning on this issue. I speak on behalf of the people of Weston-super-Ma…”

“Absolutely, and this goes to the heart of a lot of what we have talked about in this place in respect of the shift to a digital-first world. In many ways, that is great, but it excludes so many people. We need to continue to have other options, including cash payment, available for people who need them. Coastal towns f…”

“Could I probe what you said about the amnesty? You said that it was always going to be legally incompatible. Why would any Government push that through if people were telling them— Baroness O’Loan: To protect a certain category of individual. That is why they pushed it through.”

“Thank you for all your evidence so far; it has been really important to hear. The ICRIR model was built around conditional immunity for people coming to it with information, and I know some of you have talked a bit about that. With those provisions now deemed incompatible with the ECHR, how do you envisage participatio…”

“They pushed it through knowing that it would not stand up to scrutiny.”

“Voting for the recent Water (Special Measures) Act and serving in Committee with the hon. Gentleman was one of the highlights of my first six months in this place. [Hon. Members: “Aw.”] For constituents in my coastal community, it is so important that we get this right, so it is right that we take a long-term transform…”

“There is rightly a lot of conversation about children in this space, but we often forget that people generally are having huge problems. Just last weekend I was knocking on doors, and grown men were saying they did not believe anything they read online. They did not believe anything I said. There was no justification. …”

“I pay tribute to my hon. Friend the Member for Stafford (Leigh Ingham) for securing this important debate, which was inspired by one of her constituents. By leading the debate, my hon. Friend has shown that she puts the people of Stafford, Eccleshall and the villages at the heart of everything she does. In doing so, sh…”

“Absolutely, we need to create spaces in our schools and our communities for that debate. I am really encouraged by the work of my colleagues in government, including my hon. Friend the Minister, who are taking their responsibilities to the British public seriously and showing an openness to engagement that was sorely l…”

“As my hon. Friend knows, I am a very moderate human being. I agree with her. One of the things that I want to do in this place and in my constituency is always look for the positive angle in things, to talk with moderation and to calm community tensions rather than inflame them for political gain. I see much more of th…”

“I thank my hon. Friend for his intervention. I will get on to that. Disinformation has become a stealth weapon wielded by hostile states and domestic actors alike to destabilise communities and societies and to undermine democratic norms. We saw the real-world consequences of that just last summer when inflammatory con…”

“Yes, absolutely. My hon. Friend the Member for Stafford (Leigh Ingham) mentioned the difficulty of identifying or holding to account the bots and the non-people actors who are causing so many problems. In debates such as this, I talk about the people behind the algorithms and platforms because it is far too easy to los…”

“It is an honour to contribute to this debate on such a critical issue. As the former head of policy for the British Computer Society, this was one of my passion projects. I pay tribute to the hon. Member for Lagan Valley (Sorcha Eastwood) for bravely bringing this debate to the House, as it affects us all. As MPs, we h…”