Question follow-through · 1200
Internet: Safety
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether digital ID will become an approved method of age assurance to comply with age checks required by the Online Safety Act 2023.
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
- 14 May 2026
- Target answer date
- 19 May 2026
- Answer
- 19 May 2026 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
14 May 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether digital ID will become an approved method of age assurance to comply with age checks required by the Online Safety Act 2023.
19 May 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
19 May 2026
Answer published
The Online Safety Act requires in-scope services to use highly effective age assurance to prevent children from accessing harmful content online. It is up to Ofcom as the regulator to determine whether or not an age assurance process is deemed ‘highly eff...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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