Member

The noble Baroness, Lady Kidron, is occasionally accused of being somewhat angry and irate when we get on to these subjects. That is entirely understandable. She founded 5Rights in 2013. We are now 13 years later, and she is repeating some of the same arguments, warnings and evidence again and again. I remind your Lordships that for many of those years the noble Baroness was the person to whom all the bereaved parents would go, to have somebody who understood what they were going through and who would work to coalesce and bring them together so they had a community, because they had nowhere else to go. She has lived directly with the shame, the fear, the anger and the sorrow of those bereaved parents and has helped them deal with that. In so doing, she has worked with them, and everybody thought and hoped that delivering the Online Safety Act would provide, at least in part, an answer. That those parents are as disappointed as they are with where we are is a cry of shame which Parliament has to listen to. I entirely agree with the noble Baroness, Lady Kidron: I do not mind which way you vote—that is what I tell kids: “Whatever you do, vote”—but whichever way you vote, let us send a message back and get this dealt with.