Question to the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology:

To ask His Majesty's Government when they will publish the outcome of their consultation on regulations to be made under section 154A of the Online Safety Act 2023; and when regulations under that section will be laid before Parliament.

No consultation on regulations to be made under section 154A of the Online Safety Act has yet been published.

The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology is continuing to work with Ofcom, UKRI, researchers, and service providers to design a framework to provide a means for researchers to access the invaluable data held by tech companies for the purposes of online safety research.

We will provide an update in due course.