Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps the Government is taking to improve online safety (a) in general and (b) for people in protected characteristic groups.

The Government is firmly committed to making the UK the safest place to be online, Under the new online harms legislation, companies will need to have robust systems and processes in place to keep their users safe, including those in protected characteristic groups.

Further details will be included in the full government response to the Online Harms White Paper consultation, which we will publish later this year.