Question follow-through · 18357
Social Media: Fraud
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will bring forward legislative proposals to make it a criminal offence to create fake online media accounts for public bodies and organisations where the communication of official and public information is
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- Answering body
- Cabinet Office
- Tabled
- 6 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 10 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 20 Jan 2025 · 45 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
6 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will bring forward legislative proposals to make it a criminal offence to create fake online media accounts for public bodies and organisations where the communication of official and public information is
10 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
20 Jan 2025
Answer published
I apologise to the Rt. Hon. Member for the delayed response to his question of 6 December. The Online Safety Act, brought forward by the Department of Science, Innovation and Technology, introduced the false communications offence. This offence captures c...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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