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registered interest false more like this
date less than 2021-04-15more like thismore than 2021-04-15
answering body
Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport more like this
answering dept id 10 more like this
answering dept short name Digital, Culture, Media and Sport more like this
answering dept sort name Digital, Culture, Media and Sport more like this
hansard heading Advertising: Internet more like this
house id 1 more like this
legislature
25259
pref label House of Commons more like this
question text To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps he plans to take to give online platforms a legal responsibility for preventing, identifying and removing content that leads to pensions scams from their sites. more like this
tabling member constituency Harrow East remove filter
tabling member printed
Bob Blackman more like this
uin 181246 more like this
answer
answer
is ministerial correction false more like this
date of answer less than 2021-04-21more like thismore than 2021-04-21
answer text <p>The growth and scale of online pensions scams, and online fraud more broadly, is deeply concerning. The Government is working tirelessly with industry, regulators and consumer groups to tackle fraud. We are also considering additional legislative and non-legislative solutions to effectively address the harms posed by all elements of online fraud in a cohesive and robust way.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>My Department is considering how online advertising is regulated through its Online Advertising Programme. This work will look at ensuring that standards about the placement and content of advertising are effectively applied and enforced online to reduce consumers’ exposure to harmful or misleading advertising. This work will look at the role advertising can play in enabling online fraud and help inform our future efforts to tackle it. We will be consulting on this issue later this year.</p><p> </p> more like this
answering member constituency Gosport more like this
answering member printed Caroline Dinenage more like this
question first answered
less than 2021-04-21T13:32:40.487Zmore like thismore than 2021-04-21T13:32:40.487Z
answering member
4008
label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage more like this
tabling member
4005
label Biography information for Bob Blackman more like this