Oral Question·Northern Ireland Office
“What assessment he has made with Cabinet colleagues of the potential impact of Clause 15 of the Northern Ireland Protocol Bill on the (a) Northern Ireland and (b) UK economy.”
Tabled: 30 August 2022Answered: 7 September 2022
Answering Minister
the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
Answer from Hansard
Peter Kyle
I am extremely grateful to my hon. Friend for raising one of the most serious issues of our time. The Online Safety Act 2023 requires providers, as part of their risk assessment, to consider specifically how algorithms will impact a user’s exposure to illegal content and children’s exposure to harmful content. I have introduced new measures to ensure that children are kept safe, and today I issued a statement of strategic priority to Ofcom to insist that it continues to do so in future.