Question follow-through · 77768
Internet: Companies
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, if his Department will take steps to require online platforms to verify contact details for companies on their platforms.
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
- 16 Sept 2025
- Target answer date
- 13 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 14 Oct 2025 · 28 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
Recorded timeline
16 Sept 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, if his Department will take steps to require online platforms to verify contact details for companies on their platforms.
13 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
14 Oct 2025
Answer published
The Online Safety Act ensures online services remove illegal content, including fraudulent content. Ofcom, as the independent regulator, is responsible for setting out in codes of practice the steps services can take to comply with their safety duties.The...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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