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

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what progress the UK Safer Internet Centre has made in improving children's digital safety.

The UK Safer Internet Centre is a partnership that carries out a range of programmes in support of children's internet safety. These include a helpline to provide support to professionals working with children and young people with online safety issues; a hotline that provides an anonymous and safe place to report and remove child sexual abuse imagery and videos; and an Awareness Centre, which provides advice and support to children and young people, parents and carers, schools and the children's workforce.

Each year, the UK Safer Internet Centre coordinates Safer Internet Day across UK. This forms a key part of national online safety activity. An impact assessment report on Safer Internet Day 2018 showed that it had reached 45 percent of children and 30 percent of parents - and that as a result, 80 percent of these children felt more confident about what to do if they are worried about something online , and 74 percent of these parents had a conversation with their children about internet safety.