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

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps his Department is taking to tackle internet trolls uploading (a) false and (b) malicious business reviews.

The Government is making important progress in tackling online safety issues through the Digital Charter, which is guided by a number of principles and whose core purpose is to make the Internet work for everyone - for citizens, businesses and society as a whole.

As part of its work to make the UK the safest place in the world to be online, the Government published the Internet Safety Strategy Green Paper in October 2017 and published its consultation response in May this year.

The consultation response confirmed that the Government will publish a White Paper as a precursor to bringing forward online safety legislation that will cover the full range of online harms.