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Written Question
Internet: Safety
Friday 17th July 2026

Asked by: Jess Asato (Labour - Lowestoft)

Question to the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology:

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what discussions she has had with Ofcom on whether Ofcom has established whether Meta carried out a risk assessment before the recent roll out of its new AI image-generation feature; and whether the regulator judged that assessment to be suitable and sufficient, as required under the Online Safety Act.

Answered by Kanishka Narayan - Minister of State (Cabinet Office) (Jointly with the Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Technology)

It is essential that AI providers keep users safe. The Online Safety Act requires regulated services to assess and mitigate risks to users, including protecting all users from illegal content, and children from content which is harmful or age-inappropriate.

AI services are already in scope of the Online Safety Act where they meet the definition of a regulated user-to-user service or search service. And through the Crime and Policing Act, we have taken powers to bring currently unregulated AI services into scope of the Online Safety Act’s illegal content duties.

The Government engages regularly with Ofcom on implementation of the Online Safety Act. It is for Ofcom to determine whether individual providers have met their legal obligations and whether risk assessments are suitable and sufficient.

Division Vote (Commons)
15 Jul 2026 - Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) - View Vote Context
Jess Asato (Lab) voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 313 Labour Aye votes vs 0 Labour No votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 330 Noes - 109
Division Vote (Commons)
15 Jul 2026 - Trade Unions - View Vote Context
Jess Asato (Lab) voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 313 Labour Aye votes vs 0 Labour No votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 330 Noes - 109
Division Vote (Commons)
13 Jul 2026 - Immigration and Asylum Bill - View Vote Context
Jess Asato (Lab) voted No - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 282 Labour No votes vs 0 Labour Aye votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 97 Noes - 358
Division Vote (Commons)
13 Jul 2026 - Immigration and Asylum Bill - View Vote Context
Jess Asato (Lab) voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 263 Labour Aye votes vs 14 Labour No votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 264 Noes - 90
MP Financial Interest
Jess Asato (Labour - Lowestoft)
Original Source (13th July 2026)
2. Donations and other support (including loans) for activities as an MP
Francesca Perrin - £25,000.00
Division Vote (Commons)
6 Jul 2026 - National Security (State Threats) Bill - View Vote Context
Jess Asato (Lab) voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 320 Labour Aye votes vs 0 Labour No votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 394 Noes - 85
Division Vote (Commons)
1 Jul 2026 - Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill - View Vote Context
Jess Asato (Lab) voted No - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 303 Labour No votes vs 0 Labour Aye votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 177 Noes - 308
Division Vote (Commons)
1 Jul 2026 - Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill - View Vote Context
Jess Asato (Lab) voted No - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 277 Labour No votes vs 0 Labour Aye votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 173 Noes - 282
Division Vote (Commons)
1 Jul 2026 - Deferred Division - View Vote Context
Jess Asato (Lab) voted Aye - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 304 Labour Aye votes vs 0 Labour No votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 318 Noes - 107