Question follow-through · 52725
Social Media: Children
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps his Department is taking to enable parents the right to access their deceased child’s social media data.
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
- 15 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 19 May 2025
- Answer
- 23 May 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
15 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps his Department is taking to enable parents the right to access their deceased child’s social media data.
19 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
23 May 2025
Answer published
The government is committed to ensuring families feel that the system is on their side when tragedies happen. In these cases, the Online Safety Act provides for Ofcom to require information from services on a child’s online activity at a coroner’s request...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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