Written Question·Department for Science, Innovation and Technology·UIN 38225

Internet: Children

Tabled: 13 March 2025

Answered: 21 March 2025

Question

Martin Wrigley

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, if he will put a statutory duty on small websites to prevent putting children at risk of (a) sexual extortion, (b) grooming and (c) generating child sexual abuse images.

Answer

Feryal Clark

The Online Safety Act creates new duties on online services to protect users from being harmed by illegal content and activity. The strongest duties are to protect children from sexual abuse and exploitation (CSEA) and to stop child sexual abuse material ...

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