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1150401

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date	17/10/2019
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Members: Twitter
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of the steps taken by Twitter in response to complaints made by the Parliamentary authorities on abuse or threats made to hon. Members on that social media platform.
tabling member constituency	Dudley North
tabling member printed	Ian Austin
uin	1632
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2019 answer text <p>In 2017 the former Prime Minister commissioned the Committee on Standards in Public Life’s Review of Intimidation in Public Life. Government is acting on the Committee’s recommendations, as set out in the Government’s response to the report, which was published in March 2018.</p><p> </p><p>We are clear that we expect companies to do substantially more to keep their users safe and counter online abuse, particularly where this abuse is illegal. The Online Harms White Paper sets out our plans for world-leading legislation to make the UK the safest place in the world to be online. We intend to establish in law a new duty of care on companies towards their users, to ensure companies have appropriate systems and processes in place to deal with harmful content on their services to keep their users safe. Compliance with this duty of care will be overseen by an independent regulator, which will have a range of enforcement powers.</p><p> </p><p>Government has also asked the Law Commission to conduct a second phase of its review of the legal framework around abusive and offensive communications online. This will make specific recommendations for legal reform and is due to report in early 2021.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Boston and Skegness answering member printed Matt Warman question first answered 28/10/2019 16:19:41 answering member 4361 label Biography information for Matt Warman
tabling member	1511 label Biography information for Lord Austin of Dudley

1150090

registered interest
date	16/10/2019
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Twitter: Discrimination
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department is taking to tackle (a) sexism and (b) racism on Twitter.
tabling member constituency	Dudley North
tabling member printed	Ian Austin
uin	937
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2019 answer text <p>The Online Harms White Paper sets out our plans for world-leading legislation to make the UK the safest place in the world to be online. We intend to establish in law a new duty of care on companies towards their users, overseen by an independent regulator. The duty of care will ensure companies have appropriate systems and processes in place to deal with harmful content on their services to keep their users safe. Compliance with this duty of care will be overseen by an independent regulator, which will have a range of enforcement powers.</p><p> </p><p>Alongside the White Paper, the government published the Social Media Code of Practice. This voluntary guidance sets out actions that the Government believes social media platforms should take to prevent bullying, insulting, intimidating and humiliating behaviours on their sites.</p><p>Government has also asked the Law Commission to conduct a second phase of its review of the legal framework around abusive and offensive communications online. This will make specific recommendations for legal reform and is due to report in early 2021.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Boston and Skegness answering member printed Matt Warman question first answered 21/10/2019 14:04:09 answering member 4361 label Biography information for Matt Warman
tabling member	1511 label Biography information for Lord Austin of Dudley

1150091

registered interest
date	16/10/2019
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Twitter: Harassment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if she will make an assessment of the effectiveness of Twitter's appeals process for people that have suffered abuse on Twitter.
tabling member constituency	Dudley North
tabling member printed	Ian Austin
uin	938
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2019 answer text <p>The Online Harms White Paper sets out our plans for world-leading legislation to make the UK the safest place in the world to be online. We intend to establish in law a new duty of care on companies towards their users, overseen by an independent regulator. The duty of care will ensure companies have appropriate systems and processes in place to deal with harmful content on their services to keep their users safe. Compliance with this duty of care will be overseen by an independent regulator, which will have a range of enforcement powers.</p><p> </p><p>As part of the new duty of care, we will expect companies, where appropriate, to have effective and easy-to-access user complaints functions, which will be overseen by the regulator. Companies will need to respond to users' complaints within an appropriate timeframe and to take action consistent with the expectations set out in the regulatory framework</p> answering member constituency Boston and Skegness answering member printed Matt Warman question first answered 21/10/2019 14:07:06 answering member 4361 label Biography information for Matt Warman
tabling member	1511 label Biography information for Lord Austin of Dudley

1149290

registered interest
date	15/10/2019
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Twitter: Disinformation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what discussions officials in her Department have had with representatives from Twitter on tackling fake Twitter accounts.
tabling member constituency	Dudley North
tabling member printed	Ian Austin
uin	467
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2019 answer text <p>Ministers and officials have regular meetings and discussions with Twitter on a range of issues, including the challenge of fake accounts. Details of Ministerial meetings are published quarterly on the Gov.uk website.</p> answering member constituency Boston and Skegness answering member printed Matt Warman question first answered 21/10/2019 10:26:34 answering member 4361 label Biography information for Matt Warman
tabling member	1511 label Biography information for Lord Austin of Dudley