| Heading: |
Internet: Safety |
| Question ID: |
1788810 |
| UIN: |
41575 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-03-26 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5095 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Kirith Entwistle
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| Asking Member handle: |
kirith_ae
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@kirith_ae
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, if he will commission a report into real-world harms associated with smaller online forums that encourage (a) self-harm, (b) suicide and (c) misogyny. |
| Is named day: |
true |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-04-01 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4822 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Feryal Clark
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| Answering Member handle: |
FeryalClark
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@FeryalClark
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| Correcting Member ID: |
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| Answer text: |
The Online Safety Act requires such services to risk assess for illegal content and have measures in place to tackle it. Ofcom have already launched an enforcement programme which includes asking small but high-risk services for their risk assessments by ... |
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| Answering body ID: |
216 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Science, Innovation and Technology |
| Tweeted: |
true |