Question follow-through · 106422
Social Media: Pornography
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what assessment her Department has made of trends in the level of non-explicit sexual content and promotional material for adult services on social media platforms; and what steps she i
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- Answering body
- Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
- Tabled
- 16 Jan 2026
- Target answer date
- 20 Jan 2026
- Answer
- 3 Feb 2026 · 18 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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Recorded timeline
16 Jan 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what assessment her Department has made of trends in the level of non-explicit sexual content and promotional material for adult services on social media platforms; and what steps she i
20 Jan 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
3 Feb 2026
Answer published
Under the Online Safety Act, services likely to be accessed by children are required to use highly effective age assurance to prevent children encountering pornography. Ofcom acknowledge in their guidance that suggestive content of a kind that might be ex...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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