Oral Question·Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
“What steps her Department is taking to tackle hate speech online.”
Tabled: 13 October 2022Answered: 20 October 2022
Asked by
Afzal Khan
Labour — Manchester Rusholme
Answering Minister
the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Answer from Hansard
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Justice (Alex Davies-Jones)
I recently met the chief coroner. We did not discuss the specifics of this issue, but coroners have a statutory duty to investigate deaths that are not reported to them if they suspect that the cause is unknown, violent or unnatural, or that the death occurred in custody or other state detention.