| Heading: |
Public Health: Disinformation |
| Question ID: |
1796225 |
| UIN: |
47181 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-04-23 |
| Asking Member ID: |
1506 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Andrew Gwynne
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| Asking Member handle: |
GwynneMP
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@GwynneMP
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps he is taking to tackle health misinformation. |
| Is named day: |
false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-05-01 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4822 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Feryal Clark
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| Answering Member handle: |
FeryalClark
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@FeryalClark
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| Answer text: |
Under the Online Safety Act, companies must remove illegal health mis- and disinformation content if they become aware of it on their services. This includes content amounting to the False Communications offence, capturing communications where the sender ... |
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| Answering body ID: |
216 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Science, Innovation and Technology |
| Tweeted: |
true |