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Fraud: Internet

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the effectiveness of the Online Safety Act 2023 in preventing fraud.

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Answering body: Home Office
Tabled: 15 Jul 2025
Target answer date: 17 Jul 2025
Answer: 23 Jul 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

15 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the effectiveness of the Online Safety Act 2023 in preventing fraud.
17 Jul 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
23 Jul 2025
Answer published
The Online Safety Act (OSA) was passed in November 2023 and requires all in-scope platforms to tackle fraud on their platforms. The OSA’s first codes, dealing with illegal content, came into effect and were enforceable from March 2025. This means that all...

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