Question follow-through · 28430
Crime: Social Media
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions her Department has had with social media companies on the preservation and provision to law enforcement agencies of content depicting suspected criminal offences.
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 9 Sept 2026
- Target answer date
- 11 Sept 2026
- Answer
- 18 Sept 2026 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
9 Sept 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions her Department has had with social media companies on the preservation and provision to law enforcement agencies of content depicting suspected criminal offences.
11 Sept 2026
Target answer date
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18 Sept 2026
Answer published
Home Office Ministers and senior officials regularly engage with key stakeholders, including social media companies, on a range of policy and operational issues.It would not be appropriate to comment on the specifics of discussions with individual compani...
Official data retrieved 1 Oct 2026.
Later records
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