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date	31/03/2022
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	Internet: Suicide
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether instructions on how to take your own life will be considered illegal content that assists suicide in the new online safety regime.
tabling member constituency	Upper Bann
tabling member printed	Carla Lockhart
uin	151339
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/04/2022 answer text <p>Encouraging or assisting suicide is illegal. Any website publishing illegal suicide content is already breaking the law.</p><p>Under the Online Safety Bill, all platforms in scope will need to tackle and remove illegal material online.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 19/04/2022 10:41:08 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4857 label Biography information for Carla Lockhart

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date	18/11/2021
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	Internet: Suicide
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps the Government is taking to help tackle harmful content online that encourages or assists suicide.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	904214
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/11/2021 answer text <p>The draft Online Safety Bill will make companies more accountable for protecting people online, with all platforms having to identify and remove content that encourages suicide.</p><p>They will also have to ensure children are prevented from accessing material which promotes suicide or self-harm.</p><p>If platforms fail in their duties under the Bill, they will face tough enforcement action including fines of up to 10% of global annual qualifying turnover.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 18/11/2021 16:46:53 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon