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1543054

registered interest
date	16/11/2022
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: Safety
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 much from the public purse her Department has spent on (a) staff activity, (b) external research and advice, (c) public consultation and (d) stakeholder engagement on activities related to the Online Safety Bill since May 2018.
tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
uin	88888
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/11/2022 answer text <p>Figures on DCMS’s public spending can be found in DCMS’s Annual Report and Accounts, available on <a href="https://www.gov.uk/" target="_blank">GOV.UK</a>. Spending relating to the Online Safety Bill is a subset of the reported spend of the Security and Online Harms Directorate.</p> answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully question first answered 21/11/2022 16:23:05 answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully
tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell

1537217

registered interest
date	28/10/2022
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: Safety
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of whether Ofcom's roadmap to regulation for the Online Safety Bill ensures that the implementation period for Part 5 of that bill following passage of the legislation will be as short as possible, as per their policy and the remarks made by Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay on 17 March 2021 (HL Deb cols 343–7).
tabling member printed	Baroness Benjamin
uin	HL2999
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/11/2022 answer text <p>His Majesty’s Government is committed to implementing protections for children from online pornography, including the provisions in Part 5 of the Online Safety Bill, as quickly as possible. The Government’s intention is to have the online safety regime operational as soon as possible after Royal Assent, while ensuring the necessary preparations are completed effectively and service providers understand what is expected. We are working closely with Ofcom to ensure this.</p><p>As set out in Ofcom’s Roadmap to Regulation, an important consideration for the implementation of Part 5 will be the need to ensure a consistency in approach across all providers of online pornography, including those hosting user-generated content subject to the duties of Part 3. This is to ensure the legislation effectively protects children from pornography, wherever it appears online. Ofcom also needs appropriate time and flexibility properly to produce and then consult relevant statutory consultees on the relevant guidance, including those who represent the interests of children.</p><p>Ofcom will be able to use its enforcement powers, including the power to issue a provisional notice of contravention relating to Part 5, once clause 68, which sets out the duties for regulated provider pornographic content, is commenced. We do not, however, expect to see sanctions applied, except in the most egregious cases, until Ofcom has worked with regulated entities to ensure they have sufficient knowledge and notice of the new regulatory framework. Before issuing any sanctions Ofcom will undertake a full and fair investigation of any suspected non-compliance.</p><p>The introduction of the Bill should be taken as a clear message to companies that they need to begin preparing for regulation now.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay grouped question UIN HL3000 question first answered 11/11/2022 09:53:29 answering member 4728 label Biography information for Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay
tabling member	4167 label Biography information for Baroness Benjamin

1537218

registered interest
date	28/10/2022
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: Safety
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government how long after completion of the passage of the Online Safety Bill they would expect Ofcom to have the power to issue the first provisional notice of contravention under Part 5 of that Bill.
tabling member printed	Baroness Benjamin
uin	HL3000
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/11/2022 answer text <p>His Majesty’s Government is committed to implementing protections for children from online pornography, including the provisions in Part 5 of the Online Safety Bill, as quickly as possible. The Government’s intention is to have the online safety regime operational as soon as possible after Royal Assent, while ensuring the necessary preparations are completed effectively and service providers understand what is expected. We are working closely with Ofcom to ensure this.</p><p>As set out in Ofcom’s Roadmap to Regulation, an important consideration for the implementation of Part 5 will be the need to ensure a consistency in approach across all providers of online pornography, including those hosting user-generated content subject to the duties of Part 3. This is to ensure the legislation effectively protects children from pornography, wherever it appears online. Ofcom also needs appropriate time and flexibility properly to produce and then consult relevant statutory consultees on the relevant guidance, including those who represent the interests of children.</p><p>Ofcom will be able to use its enforcement powers, including the power to issue a provisional notice of contravention relating to Part 5, once clause 68, which sets out the duties for regulated provider pornographic content, is commenced. We do not, however, expect to see sanctions applied, except in the most egregious cases, until Ofcom has worked with regulated entities to ensure they have sufficient knowledge and notice of the new regulatory framework. Before issuing any sanctions Ofcom will undertake a full and fair investigation of any suspected non-compliance.</p><p>The introduction of the Bill should be taken as a clear message to companies that they need to begin preparing for regulation now.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay grouped question UIN HL2999 question first answered 11/11/2022 09:53:29 answering member 4728 label Biography information for Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay
tabling member	4167 label Biography information for Baroness Benjamin

1537219

registered interest
date	28/10/2022
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: Safety
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government whether they expect the duties on user-to-user services created by the Online Safety Bill to apply when services are accessed via a Virtual Private Network (VPN) and the service may not be able to know if the user is located in the UK.
tabling member printed	Baroness Benjamin
uin	HL3001
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/11/2022 answer text <p>The Online Safety Bill will apply to companies which allow users to post content online or to interact with each other, as well as to search services.</p><p>The Online Safety Bill will ensure that users in the UK are protected. It will apply to any relevant service which is ‘linked to the UK’, no matter where it is based. A service is linked to the UK if it has a significant number of UK users, UK users form a target market, or if it poses a material risk of significant harm to UK individuals.</p><p>The onus will be on companies to ensure that their systems are sufficiently effective. Ofcom will be able to take robust enforcement action against companies which fail to fulfil their duties.</p> answering member printed Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay question first answered 10/11/2022 16:29:41 answering member 4728 label Biography information for Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay
tabling member	4167 label Biography information for Baroness Benjamin

1518950

registered interest
date	10/10/2022
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: Safety
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 recent assessment she has made of the adequacy of the definition of legal but harmful in the Online Safety Bill.
tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
uin	59033
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2022 answer text <p>The Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport is currently reviewing the adult safety duties and the definition of content that is harmful to adults. This is to ensure that we strike the right balance between protecting users from harmful content online and protecting users’ rights to freedom of expression.</p> answering member constituency Folkestone and Hythe answering member printed Damian Collins question first answered 18/10/2022 09:17:35 answering member 3986 label Biography information for Damian Collins
tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

1520087

registered interest
date	10/10/2022
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: Safety
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 has taken to ensure that the voices and experiences (a) Molly Russell and (b) other children and families will be included in the creation of a new online regulatory system.
tabling member constituency	Solihull
tabling member printed	Julian Knight
uin	59838
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2022 answer text <p>The experience of Molly Russell and her family highlights the importance of holding tech companies to account to keep their users, and in particular children, safe online. The Government has consulted widely, including with parents and children, to develop the new regulatory framework.</p><p>A set of statutory duties will be placed on Ofcom, requiring the regulator to conduct research and consult with users when carrying out their online safety duties. This includes the opinions and experiences of children, parents and families, which Ofcom will use when developing its codes of practice.</p><p>The Bill will also require companies to enable children, and their parents or guardians, to easily report harmful content and, where necessary for those companies to take action.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Folkestone and Hythe answering member printed Damian Collins question first answered 18/10/2022 09:10:12 answering member 3986 label Biography information for Damian Collins
tabling member	4410 label Biography information for Julian Knight

1483328

registered interest
date	27/06/2022
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: Safety
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what research they have undertaken on the effectiveness of different types of media literacy initiatives in tackling (1) misinformation, and (2) disinformation.
tabling member printed	Baroness Merron
uin	HL1280
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2022 answer text <p>On 16 April 2022, DCMS published the Year 2 Online Media Literacy Action Plan, setting out our media literacy work programme for the financial year 2022/23. The Action Plan announced that DCMS is establishing a media literacy research programme to bridge evidence gaps about the effectiveness of media literacy interventions, which includes initiatives tackling misinformation and disinformation. We will report on the progress of the Action Plan in due course.</p> answering member printed Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay question first answered 11/07/2022 14:20:43 answering member 4728 label Biography information for Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay
tabling member	347 label Biography information for Baroness Merron

1483329

registered interest
date	27/06/2022
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: Safety
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the Online Safety Bill's ability to ensure companies in scope are (1) supporting, and (2) improving, the media literacy skills of their users.
tabling member printed	Baroness Merron
uin	HL1281
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2022 answer text <p>The Online Safety Bill includes measures to encourage regulated service providers to promote media literacy to their users. Following a recommendation from the Joint Committee which conducted the pre-legislative scrutiny of the Online Safety Bill, media literacy is now included in the risk assessment duties. This requires in-scope companies to consider how the promotion of users’ media literacy can be used to mitigate harms on their platforms.</p><p>Media literacy is also expressly referred to in Ofcom’s new transparency reporting and information gathering powers, giving Ofcom enhanced visibility of industry spending and activity related to media literacy. Social media platforms currently play a significant role in boosting media literacy, in particular with regards to the funding of programmes. This greater visibility of spending and activity in this area will therefore strengthen Ofcom’s ability to undertake its statutory duty to promote media literacy.</p> answering member printed Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay question first answered 11/07/2022 14:21:11 answering member 4728 label Biography information for Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay
tabling member	347 label Biography information for Baroness Merron

1467965

registered interest
date	06/06/2022
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: Safety
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they have prepared a draft list of priority categories for “legal but harmful” content for (1) adults, and (2) children, which is due to be set out in secondary legislation under the proposed Online Safety Bill.
tabling member printed	Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick
uin	HL668
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/06/2022 answer text <p>Priority harmful content to children and adults will be set out in secondary legislation once the Secretary of State has been granted the relevant powers to make regulations for priority harmful content under the Bill.</p><p>Her Majesty’s Government has a duty to consult Ofcom on the proposed priority categories of harmful content before designating them in secondary legislation.</p><p>Setting out the priority harms in secondary legislation will allow Her Majesty’s Government to respond to changing risks to children and adults online, ensuring that new, currently unforeseen harms can be dealt with as they emerge.</p> answering member printed Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay grouped question UIN HL669 question first answered 16/06/2022 11:45:40 answering member 4728 label Biography information for Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay
tabling member	4130 label Biography information for Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick

1467966

registered interest
date	06/06/2022
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: Safety
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government when companies in scope of the Online Safety Bill will be provided with a draft list of priority categories for “legal but harmful” content for (1) adults, and (2) children.
tabling member printed	Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick
uin	HL669
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/06/2022 answer text <p>Priority harmful content to children and adults will be set out in secondary legislation once the Secretary of State has been granted the relevant powers to make regulations for priority harmful content under the Bill.</p><p>Her Majesty’s Government has a duty to consult Ofcom on the proposed priority categories of harmful content before designating them in secondary legislation.</p><p>Setting out the priority harms in secondary legislation will allow Her Majesty’s Government to respond to changing risks to children and adults online, ensuring that new, currently unforeseen harms can be dealt with as they emerge.</p> answering member printed Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay grouped question UIN HL668 question first answered 16/06/2022 11:45:40 answering member 4728 label Biography information for Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay
tabling member	4130 label Biography information for Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick