In the Autumn Budget, it has been announced that the government will bring forward the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumer Bill – the legislation that will empower the Digital Markets Unit (DMU) – to parliament in the current parliamentary session (i.e. before next summer). This is a significant victory as before now the Government had only promised to introduce a draft Bill with no timetable on when it would materialise.

It has been reportedthat the long-delayed Online Safety Bill will return to Parliament later this month, but with the ‘legal but harmful’ content category removed from the Bill’s scope.