Online Safety Bill: supporting documents
Supporting documentation for legislation to establish a new regulatory framework to tackle harmful content online, and make reforms to the criminal law.
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The Online Safety Bill delivers the government’s manifesto commitment to make the UK the safest place in the world to be online while defending free expression.
This Bill gives effect to the policy approach outlined in the Full government response to the Online Harms White Paper consultation, and reflects many of the recommendations from pre-legislative scrutiny.
The supporting documentation includes:
- fact sheet
- impact assessment
- for general enquiries or in response to any of the questions included in this impact assessment, please contact [email protected]
- impact assessment: Regulatory Policy Committee opinion
- European Convention Human Rights Memorandum
Updates to this page
Published 17 March 2022Last updated 18 January 2023 + show all updates
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Added 'Overview of expected impact of changes to the Online Safety Bill' document and updated ECHR memo.
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Added communications offences factsheet.
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First published.