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

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 16 April 2019 to Question 242944 on Internet: Safety, whether all companies whose services are in scope of the duty of care will contribute to the funding of the regulator.

The regulator will be funded by industry in the medium term, and the government is exploring options such as an industry levy, fees or other charges to put it on a sustainable footing. Following the publication of the Online Harms White Paper, the government is consulting on how funding contributions should be determined.