Social Media: Crime

(asked on 18th June 2025) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government how many requests police forces in England and Wales have made in each of the last three years to (1) Meta, (2) X, (3) Google, and (4) TikTok to identify users of those platforms in cases related to unlawful content; and what proportion of those requests were (a) met by the social media platform, (b) met by the social media platform but only after a court order, or (c) not met.


Answered by
Lord Hanson of Flint Portrait
Lord Hanson of Flint
Minister of State (Home Office)
This question was answered on 15th July 2025

The Home Office does not collect data on the number of requests made by police forces to social media platforms, nor the outcomes of such requests.

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