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733029

registered interest
date	27/06/2017
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: 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, what steps she is taking to tackle online bullying in rural areas.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	1499
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/07/2017 answer text <p>The Government expects social media companies, and internet platforms, to have robust processes in place and to act promptly when all forms of abuse, including cyber bullying is reported. That includes acting quickly to removing inappropriate content, and where appropriate, suspending or terminating the accounts of those breaching the rules in place. We are continuing to work closely with industry.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 05/07/2017 16:25:33 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

752570

registered interest
date	17/07/2017
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	Advertising: Complaints
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how many complaints have been made to the Advertising Standards Authority in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	5233
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2017 answer text <p>The number of complaints received by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) can be found in the joint annual reports of the ASA and Committee of Advertising Practice (CAP), archived here: <a href="https://www.asa.org.uk/advice-and-resources/resource-library/annual-reports.html" target="_blank">https://www.asa.org.uk/advice-and-resources/resource-library/annual-reports.html</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 24/07/2017 10:48:23 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

767444

registered interest
date	09/10/2017
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	Pornography: Internet
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 she is taking to stop access for those under 18-years of age to online porn sites.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	106788
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2017 answer text <p>Through the Digital Economy Act (2017), we have created the requirement for commercial providers of online pornography to have robust age verification controls to prevent under 18s accessing this material.</p><p> </p><p>Our aim is to bring these powers into force within 12 months of the Act receiving Royal Assent (27 April 2017).</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 16/10/2017 12:10:18 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

780422

registered interest
date	30/10/2017
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	Pornography: Internet
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 she is taking to restrict access to online porn for those aged under 18.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	110410
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/11/2017 answer text <p>I refer the Hon. Member to my answer to PQ 106788.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 06/11/2017 11:00:01 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

782680

registered interest
date	02/11/2017
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: Terrorism
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 she is taking to prevent online subscription to websites with Islamic extremist content.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	111009
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/11/2017 answer text <p>This Government remains at the forefront of the fight against online terrorist and extremist material. The Police Counter Terrorism Internet Referral Unit (CTIRU) has secured the removal of over 290,000 pieces of terrorist-related material, including extremist propaganda, since February 2010. We are also working closely with industry to encourage companies to develop innovative solutions to tackle online radicalisation. Finally, we are seeking to tighten the law: my RHF the Home Secretary announced recently our aim of extending to fifteen years the maximum sentence for those who repeatedly view terrorist content online; and we are setting up a new Commission for Countering Extremism to identify whether more powers are needed.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 10/11/2017 14:19:33 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

788576

registered interest
date	13/11/2017
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: 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, what steps she has taken to address the issues caused by internet trolls.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	112772
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/11/2017 answer text <p>What is illegal offline is also illegal online. Communications which are grossly offensive, obscene, indecent or false fall under either section 1 of the Malicious Communications Act 1988 or under section 127 of the Communications Act 2003.</p><p> </p><p>As part of the work on the Digital Charter announced in the Queen's Speech, the Government is considering a range of options to counter internet harms. This includes an Internet Safety Strategy, published on 11 October, which will look at how we can support users so that everyone can access the benefits of the Internet safely. The Strategy considers the responsibilities of companies to their users, the use of technical solutions to prevent online harms and government's role in supporting users. The Strategy also considers the role that technology companies can play in awareness and education for users, including children.</p><p> </p><p>The recently enacted Digital Economy Act will help to ensure that online abuse is effectively tackled by requiring a social media code of practice to be established. The code will set out guidance about what social media providers should do in relation to conduct on their platforms and involves bullying or insulting an individual or other behaviour likely to intimidate or humiliate them. It will include guidance on arrangements for notification by users; the process for dealing with notifications; terms and conditions in relation to these arrangements and processes; and, the giving information to the public about the action providers take against harmful behaviour. It also includes questions to determine whether guidance should also be issued on standards for user content and conduct, prevention and identification of abuse and misuse of services, and information about how to identify illegal content.</p><p> </p><p>The consultation on the measures in the Internet Safety Strategy closes on 7th December and Government aims to publish the social media code of practice in 2018.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 21/11/2017 17:55:39 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1544358

registered interest
date	22/11/2022
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: Children
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 she is taking to protect children online.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	93538
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/11/2022 answer text <p>Protecting children online is a priority for the government. The strongest protections in the Online Safety Bill are for children.</p><p>All companies in scope will need to take robust steps to protect children from illegal content and activity on their services. This includes proactively identifying and minimising the uploading and sharing of priority illegal content such as child sexual exploitation and abuse. Companies will also need to have effective systems and processes to quickly take down other illegal content or behaviour once it has been reported or they become aware of its presence.</p><p>Companies in scope will also need to assess whether their service is likely to be accessed by children and if so, deliver additional protections for children from harmful content or activity. If they fail to do so, they will be subject to tough enforcement action by Ofcom, the regulator.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully grouped question UIN 94913 question first answered 29/11/2022 09:26:38 answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1551496

registered interest
date	14/12/2022
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	Social Media: Regulation
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 take steps to increase regulation of social media companies in order to manage security threats to users.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	110701
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2022 answer text <p>The Online Safety Bill will impose duties on companies that enable the sharing of user-generated content, including social media companies, to tackle illegal content on their services. Social media companies will need to understand the risk of illegal content appearing on their services, and take steps to prevent users from encountering such content. This will include illegal content that poses a security threat to users, for example terrorist content. The Bill is currently progressing through Parliament.</p> answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully question first answered 20/12/2022 16:07:47 answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1551501

registered interest
date	14/12/2022
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	Online Safety Bill
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 he will make an assessment of the potential impact of the Online Safety Bill on the availability of online content that is harmful to children.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	110704
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2022 answer text <p>The Online Safety Bill will deliver world-leading protections for children from harmful content and activity online. All companies that are in scope will need to take robust steps to protect children from illegal content and activity, such as content assisting suicide, on their services.</p><p>In addition, companies that have services which are likely to be accessed by children will be required to protect children from being exposed to harmful content or activity including bullying and pornography. This includes ensuring that systems for targeting content to children, such as the use of algorithms, and other features and functionalities on the service such as live streaming and private messaging, protect children from harmful material. For services that pose a very high risk to the safety of children, such as pornography, we would expect companies to use a high confidence age assurance technology, such as age verification, designed to prevent children from accessing the service.</p> answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully question first answered 20/12/2022 10:45:39 answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1551502

registered interest
date	14/12/2022
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	Online Safety Bill
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 she has had with the Leader of the House on the planned timetable for the remaining stages of the Online Safety Bill.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	110705
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/01/2023 answer text <p>Following its second day of Report on 5 December 2022, the Online Safety Bill completed its second House of Commons Committee Stage on 15 December.</p><p>The Bill remains a priority and the government is committed to ensuring it passes as swiftly as possible. Parliamentary scheduling remains a matter for the Business Managers.</p> answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully question first answered 03/01/2023 11:43:50 answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon