Oral QuestionDepartment for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

“If she will make a statement on her departmental responsibilities.”

Tabled: 4 November 2026Answered: 12 November 2026

Asked by

Rebecca Smith

Conservative — South West Devon

Answering Minister

the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Answer from Hansard

The Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology (Peter Kyle)

We have seen fear and lies spread about life in Britain, with those who have done little or nothing to combat child sexual abuse stretching every sinew to jump on the bandwagon. This Government are committed to justice for the victims and punishment for the perpetrators of abuse wherever it happens and whoever commits it, and I pay tribute to the work of the Prime Minister and, in particular, the Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department, my hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham Yardley (Jess Phillips), in that regard. The illegal content codes that Ofcom set out last month are the single biggest change to online safety for a generation.