Written Question·Home Office·UIN 6853

Gangs: Social Media

Tabled: 4 October 2024
Answered: 14 October 2024

Question

Ben Obese-Jecty

Conservative — Huntingdon

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of requiring social media platforms to remove gang scoreboards of (a) knife crimes and (b) other assaults.

Answer

Dame Diana Johnson
Under the Government’s Safer Streets Mission, we have committed to ambitious plans to halve knife crime in a decade. As part of this ambition, we are committed to going after the gangs who incite and commit violence on our streets.The use of social media ...
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