Question follow-through · 5011
Social Media: Fraud
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what recent assessment her Department has made of the role of social media companies in facilitating online fraud and scams.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
- Tabled
- 29 May 2026
- Target answer date
- 2 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 8 Jun 2026 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
29 May 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what recent assessment her Department has made of the role of social media companies in facilitating online fraud and scams.
2 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
8 Jun 2026
Answer published
Online platforms, including social media, are being exploited by criminals to commit crime. Data from the banking and financial services sector suggests 53% of authorised push payment (APP) fraud cases in 2023 involved social media, messaging and call pla...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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