Written Question·Department for Science, Innovation and Technology·UIN 98650

Social Media: Health Education

Tabled: 9 December 2025
Answered: 17 December 2025

Question

Dr Allison Gardner

LabourStoke-on-Trent South

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that content relating to women’s health is not inappropriately restricted or shadow-banned on social media platforms; and whether her Depar

Answer

Kanishka Narayan
The Online Safety Act does not set out to prevent adults from seeking out legal content, nor does it decide what legal content companies should or should not allow on their platforms. Platforms will not be able to arbitrarily remove content, and users wil...

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