Policy paper

Online Safety Bill: supporting documents

Supporting documentation for legislation to establish a new regulatory framework to tackle harmful content online, and make reforms to the criminal law.

• From: Department for Science, Innovation and Technology and Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
• Published: 17 March 2022
• Last updated: 18 January 2023 — See all updates

This was published under the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government

Documents

Online Safety Bill: impact assessment

PDF, 3.42 MB, 108 pages

Online Safety Bill: Regulatory Policy Committee opinion

PDF, 224 KB, 12 pages

Overview of expected impact of changes to the Online Safety Bill

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Online Safety Bill: European Convention on Human Rights Memorandum

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Details

The Online Safety Bill delivers the government’s manifesto commitment to make the UK the safest place in the world to be online while defending free expression.

This Bill gives effect to the policy approach outlined in the Full government response to the Online Harms White Paper consultation, and reflects many of the recommendations from pre-legislative scrutiny.

The supporting documentation includes:

• fact sheet
• impact assessment
  • for general enquiries or in response to any of the questions included in this impact assessment, please contact soh-analysis-team@dcms.gov.uk
• impact assessment: Regulatory Policy Committee opinion
• European Convention Human Rights Memorandum

Published 17 March 2022
Last updated 18 January 2023 + show all updates

1. 18 January 2023

   Added 'Overview of expected impact of changes to the Online Safety Bill' document and updated ECHR memo.

2. 19 April 2022

   Added communications offences factsheet.

3. 17 March 2022

   First published.