Question follow-through · 26106
Internet: Age Assurance
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of using device or operating-system-level age signalling to reduce the need for individual websites to collect identity do
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- Answering body
- Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
- Tabled
- 1 Sept 2026
- Target answer date
- 3 Sept 2026
- Answer
- 21 Sept 2026 · 20 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
1 Sept 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of using device or operating-system-level age signalling to reduce the need for individual websites to collect identity do
3 Sept 2026
Target answer date
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21 Sept 2026
Answer published
We recognise the potential merits of safety protections at device-level, including age assurance. The Government is engaging with operating system providers and device manufacturers to make their products safer for children, including through technology t...
Official data retrieved 25 Sept 2026.
Later records
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Written question 30099
15 Sept 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what discussions her Department has had with Ofcom on the impartiality of reporting by public funded broadcasters of the conflict and humanitarian crisis in Sudan.