Member

Further, the Minister will be aware—it is good to have the noble Lord, Lord Stevenson, present—that the Joint Committee on the draft Online Safety Bill strongly recommended that the super-complaints mechanism be open to civil society organisations representing users, even where individual consent was not practicable, in order to ensure that systemic harms could be addressed. Several Members of the House echoed this position during the Bill’s passage. Will the Government agree to keep this aspect of the regime under review, ensuring that civil society organisations are empowered to bring super-complaints on systemic issues, even without explicit consent from every affected party, provided that appropriate safeguards are in place? I recognise that that is not the way the Act runs at the moment, but it needs to be kept under review.