Written Question·Department for Science, Innovation and Technology·UIN 40561

Internet: Safety

Tabled: 24 March 2025
Answered: 28 March 2025
Named Day

Question

Christine Jardine

Liberal DemocratEdinburgh West

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the Online Safety Act 2023 on (a) small websites, (b) personal blogs and (c) community forums.

Answer

Feryal Clark
Under the Online Safety Act, in-scope user-to-user and search services must risk assess for content that is illegal and harmful to children. Ofcom, the independent regulator for this regime, set out what steps small, low-risk providers need to take to ful...

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