Question follow-through · 98650
Social Media: Health Education
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that content relating to women’s health is not inappropriately restricted or shadow-banned on social media platforms; and whether her Depar
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- Answering body
- Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
- Tabled
- 9 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 11 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 17 Dec 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
9 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that content relating to women’s health is not inappropriately restricted or shadow-banned on social media platforms; and whether her Depar
11 Dec 2025
Target answer date
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17 Dec 2025
Answer published
The Online Safety Act does not set out to prevent adults from seeking out legal content, nor does it decide what legal content companies should or should not allow on their platforms. Platforms will not be able to arbitrarily remove content, and users wil...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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