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Internet: Safety

Question for Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

UIN 88888, tabled on 16 November 2022

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how much from the public purse her Department has spent on (a) staff activity, (b) external research and advice, (c) public consultation and (d) stakeholder engagement on activities related to the Online Safety Bill since May 2018.

Answered on

21 November 2022

Figures on DCMS’s public spending can be found in DCMS’s Annual Report and Accounts, available on GOV.UK. Spending relating to the Online Safety Bill is a subset of the reported spend of the Security and Online Harms Directorate.

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