Written Question·Department for Science, Innovation and Technology·UIN 116736

Internet: Suicide

Tabled: 2 March 2026
Answered: 19 March 2026

Question

Dame Caroline Dinenage

ConservativeGosport

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what estimate she has made of the number of children accessing online suicide fora.

Answer

Kanishka Narayan
The Online Safety Act requires in-scope services, including in-scope gaming services, to prevent all users from encountering illegal suicide and self-harm content, and children from legal content encouraging, promoting, or providing instructions for suici...

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