Written Question·Department for Science, Innovation and Technology·UIN 75714

Suicide: Internet

Tabled: 8 September 2025
Answered: 16 September 2025

Question

Lisa Smart

Liberal DemocratHazel Grove

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what progress her Department has made on enforcing the provisions of the Online Safety Act 2023 in relation to small-scale online suicide forums (a) through the Small but Risky Taskforc

Answer

Kanishka Narayan
Ofcom is the independent regulator of the Online Safety Act and is responsible for its enforcement. Within the first month of the Act’s illegal content duties coming into effect, Ofcom launched several enforcement programmes to monitor compliance with the...

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