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Written Question
Social Media: Crime
Tuesday 15th July 2025

Asked by: Lord Pack (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)

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 - Minister of State (Home Office)

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.