Question follow-through · 101529

Public Order: Internet

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the draft Public Order Act 2023 (Interference With Use or Operation of Key National Infrastructure) Regulations 2025 covers online activity.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body: Home Office
Tabled: 18 Dec 2025
Target answer date: 5 Jan 2026
Answer: 9 Jan 2026 · 22 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

18 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the draft Public Order Act 2023 (Interference With Use or Operation of Key National Infrastructure) Regulations 2025 covers online activity.
5 Jan 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
9 Jan 2026
Answer published
On Thursday 27 November 2025, the Home Office laid an affirmative Statutory Instrument in Parliament to amend Section 7 and Section 8 of the Public Order Act 2023 (“POA”). This will amend the list of key national infrastructure within Section 7 of the POA...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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