Member

We are a House of experience; we try to take the long view to give successive Governments the benefit of our collective experience and to warn them against repeating mistakes that have been made in the past. I have seen this in my relatively short time in your Lordships’ House; when I took the Online Safety Act through, I was glad to hear from the noble Lord, Lord McNally, who came here in 1995 and is a veteran of 30 years’ standing in this House. He spoke powerfully during the passage of what became that Act from his point of view of taking through the Communications Act 2003, and he had some very useful points of comparison. I benefited from listening to the noble Lord, Lord Stevenson of Balmacara—whose 15 years would be coming up around now—who sat on the Joint Committee that debated that Bill and was extremely good in that committee. I enjoyed working with the noble Baroness, Lady Kidron, who at 13 years in your Lordships’ House is only just getting started.