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1151474

	registered interest
	date	22/10/2019
	answering body	House of Commons Commission
	answering dept id	18
	answering dept short name	House of Commons Commission
	answering dept sort name	House of Commons Commission
	hansard heading	Members: Twitter
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the right hon. Member for Carshalton and Wallington, representing the House of Commons Commission, how many MPs have contacted the House authorities about anonymous abuse or threats on Twitter in the latest period for which figures are available.
	tabling member constituency	Dudley North
	tabling member printed	Ian Austin
	uin	3697
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2019 answer text <p>The Parliamentary Security Department regularly provides advice to Members and their staff on social media security, but we do not collate data on these interactions. For security and privacy reasons, the discussions held between Members and the House authorities relating to threats and abuse are not publicly available. Threats and abuse received by Members should always be reported to the police.</p><p>The Member is invited to contact the Director of Security for Parliament directly if he wishes to discuss this matter further.</p> answering member constituency Carshalton and Wallington answering member printed Tom Brake question first answered 28/10/2019 18:42:38 answering member 151 label Biography information for Tom Brake
	tabling member	1511 label Biography information for Lord Austin of Dudley

1150398

	registered interest
	date	17/10/2019
	answering body	House of Commons Commission
	answering dept id	18
	answering dept short name	House of Commons Commission
	answering dept sort name	House of Commons Commission
	hansard heading	Members: Twitter
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the right hon. Member for Carshalton and Wallington, representing the House of Commons Commission, how many hon. Members have discussed with the House authorities abuse and threats that they have received on Twitter.
	tabling member constituency	Dudley North
	tabling member printed	Ian Austin
	uin	1631
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2019 answer text <p>Threats and abuse received by Members should always be reported to the police.</p><p>The Parliamentary Security Department uses best endeavours to review tweets sent publicly to Members, reporting matters of concern to the police and Twitter as appropriate. This opt-in service is only done with Members’ express permission.</p><p>The Parliamentary Security Department regularly provides advice to Members and their staff on social media security, but we do not collate data on these interactions. For security and privacy reasons, the discussions held between Members and the House authorities relating to threats and abuse are not publicly available.</p><p>The Member is invited to contact the Director of Security for Parliament directly if he wishes to discuss this matter further.</p> answering member constituency Carshalton and Wallington answering member printed Tom Brake question first answered 22/10/2019 11:29:11 answering member 151 label Biography information for Tom Brake
	tabling member	1511 label Biography information for Lord Austin of Dudley

1151475

	registered interest
	date	22/10/2019
	answering body	House of Commons Commission
	answering dept id	18
	answering dept short name	House of Commons Commission
	answering dept sort name	House of Commons Commission
	hansard heading	Members: Social Media
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the right hon. Member for Carshalton and Wallington, representing the House of Commons Commission, how many staff Parliament has employed to deal with social media companies in respect of abuse or threats directed at Members of Parliament in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Dudley North
	tabling member printed	Ian Austin
	uin	3698
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2019 answer text <p>Prior to June 2017 no staff were directly employed to deal with social media companies in respect of abuse or threats directed at Members of Parliament.</p><p>From June 2017 to May 2019, one member of staff was directly employed in this line of work.</p><p>From June 2019 to date, two members of staff have been directly employed in this line of work.</p> answering member constituency Carshalton and Wallington answering member printed Tom Brake question first answered 28/10/2019 18:56:51 answering member 151 label Biography information for Tom Brake
	tabling member	1511 label Biography information for Lord Austin of Dudley

1151476

	registered interest
	date	22/10/2019
	answering body	House of Commons Commission
	answering dept id	18
	answering dept short name	House of Commons Commission
	answering dept sort name	House of Commons Commission
	hansard heading	Members: Twitter
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the right hon. Member for Carshalton and Wallington, representing the House of Commons Commission, what assessment the Commission has made of the effectiveness of Twitter's response to complaints by House authorities about abuse or threats directed at Members of Parliament.
	tabling member constituency	Dudley North
	tabling member printed	Ian Austin
	uin	3699
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2019 answer text <p>Parliament has established a reasonable relationship with the main social media companies, including Twitter. We continually monitor the effectiveness of our work as we regularly raise abusive content directly with the company on behalf of Members.</p> answering member constituency Carshalton and Wallington answering member printed Tom Brake question first answered 28/10/2019 18:50:03 answering member 151 label Biography information for Tom Brake
	tabling member	1511 label Biography information for Lord Austin of Dudley