Chris Bryant: Clause 124 delivers on the Labour manifesto commitments to further support coroners, and procurators fiscal in Scotland, to access information held by online se

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Themes: Child safety & minors · Online platforms · Search services

Clause 124 delivers on the Labour manifesto commitments to further support coroners, and procurators fiscal in Scotland, to access information held by online services after a child’s death. This is a very sensitive issue, and we have tried to address it as such. The provision will require Ofcom, when informed by a coroner, to issue a data preservation notice to specified online service companies. That will help to ensure that those online service companies retain all the relevant data they have on a child so that it will be available on request should a coroner later require it as part of an i

The Committee consisted of the following Members: Chairs: Wera Hobhouse, † Karl Turner † Anderson, Callum (Buckingham and Bletchley) (Lab) † Aquarone, Steff (North Norfolk) (LD) † Beales, Danny (Uxbridge and South Ruislip) (Lab) † Bryant, Chris (Minister for Data Protection and Telecoms) † Collins, Victoria (Harpenden and Berkhamsted) (LD) † Dearden, Kate (Halifax) (Lab/Co-op) Entwistle, Kirith (Bolton North East) (Lab) † Fortune, Peter (Bromley and Biggin Hill) (Con) † Josan, Gurinder Singh (Smethwick) (Lab) † Juss, Warinder (Wolverhampton West) (Lab) † Kumar, Sonia (Dudley) (Lab) Macdonald, …