Suicide: Internet
Commons · Question 75714 · Tabled 8 Sep 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology · Official record
Answered 16 Sep 2025
Question
Asked by Lisa Smart
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what progress her Department has made on enforcing the provisions of the Online Safety Act 2023 in relation to small-scale online suicide forums (a) through the Small but Risky Taskforc
Answer
Answered by Kanishka Narayan, 16 Sep 2025
Ofcom is the independent regulator of the Online Safety Act and is responsible for its enforcement. Within the first month of the Act’s illegal content duties coming into effect, Ofcom launched several enforcement programmes to monitor compliance with the...