Question follow-through · 10007
Pornography
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps his Department is taking to help tackle pornography harms.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
- Tabled
- 18 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 22 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 28 Oct 2024 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
18 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps his Department is taking to help tackle pornography harms.
22 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
28 Oct 2024
Answer published
Under the Online Safety Act, all in-scope services that allow pornography must use highly effective age assurance to prevent children accessing it, including user-to-user services and services which publish pornography. Under the Act, platforms must proac...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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