| Heading: |
Elections: Disinformation |
| Question ID: |
1809827 |
| UIN: |
57797 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-06-05 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5122 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Manuela Perteghella
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| Asking Member handle: |
mp4stratford
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@mp4stratford
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps his Department is taking to help tackle (a) misinformation and (b) disinformation in elections. |
| Is named day: |
false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-06-13 |
| 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 Government takes the integrity and security of our democratic processes seriously, including from the threat posed by mis/disinformation.The UK’s Online Safety Act captures disinformation aimed at disrupting elections where it is a criminal offence in... |
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| Answering body ID: |
216 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Science, Innovation and Technology |
| Tweeted: |
true |