Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what discussions he has had with the Home Secretary on the potential merits of expanding the scope of the proposed Online Safety Bill to tackle online scams and fraud.

The Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport and the Home Secretary are jointly responsible for the online harms programme. The government has set out its position on the scope of the online safety bill in the full government response to the Online Harms White Paper.

The government is committed to tackling online scams and fraud. We are working tirelessly across government and with industry, consumer groups, law enforcement and regulators to pursue fraudsters, close down the vulnerabilities they exploit and make sure people have the information they need to spot and report scams.