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Tackling Online Abuse

Inquiry

The Petitions Committee has launched an inquiry into tackling online abuse, to consider issues raised in a number of petitions from the last Parliament and to follow up on the Committee’s previous inquiry into online abuse and the experiences of disabled people. The inquiry will resume in the wake of the Government's publication of its draft Online Safety Bill in May.

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Past events

Wednesday 1 December 2021
3:00pm Public
Tackling Online Abuse - Oral evidence 1 December 2021
3:00pm
  • Chris Philp MP (Minister for Tech and Digital Economy at Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport)
  • Orla MacRae (Deputy Director for Online Harms Regulation at Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport)
Room 6, Palace of Westminster
Tuesday 23 November 2021
1:50pm Private
2:15pm Public
Tackling Online Abuse - Oral evidence 23 November 2021
2:15pm
  • Dr Nicholas Hoggard (Lawyer at Law Commission)
  • Professor Penney Lewis (Commissioner at Law Commission)
  • Katy Minshall (Head of UK Public Policy at Twitter)
  • Rebecca Stimson (UK Head of Public Policy at Meta)
  • Theo Bertram (Director of Government Relations and Public Policy for Europe at TikTok)
Room 16, Palace of Westminster
Tuesday 16 November 2021
2:15pm Public
Tackling Online Abuse - Oral evidence 16 November 2021
2:15pm
  • Seyi Akiwowo (Founder and CEO at Glitch)
  • Andy Burrows (Head of Child Safety Online Policy at NSPCC)
  • Stephen Kinsella OBE (Founder at Clean up the Internet)
  • Ellen Judson (Senior Researcher at Demos)
  • William Perrin OBE (Trustee at Carnegie Trust UK)
  • Dr Bertie Vidgen (Research Fellow at The Alan Turing Institute)
Room 15, Palace of Westminster
Tuesday 2 November 2021
2:15pm Public
Tackling Online Abuse - Oral evidence 2 November 2021
2:15pm
  • Nancy Kelley (Chief Executive at Stonewall)
  • Danny Stone MBE (Chief Executive at Antisemitism Policy Trust)
  • Matthew Harrison (Public Affairs and Parliamentary Manager at The Royal Mencap Society)
  • Ruth Smeeth (Chief Executive at Index on Censorship)
  • Chara Bakalis (Principal Lecturer at Oxford Brookes University)
  • Dr Joe Mulhall (Head of Research at HOPE not hate)
The Grimond Room, Portcullis House

Contact us

  • Email: petitionscommittee@parliament.uk
  • Phone: (General) 0207 219 4887 / For media enquiries contact Sean Earley, Media Relations Manager, at 0207 219 0969 / CommonsPressOffice@parliament.uk