Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she has taken to ensure that industry codes of practice allow users to remove compromised telephones from cloud accounts.

The Digital Economy Act requires the Secretary of State, before issuing a code of practice, to consult social media providers to whom the code is intended.

The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport are consulting on introducing a social media code of practice as part of the Internet Safety Strategy which was published on 11 October 2017.