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1019938

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date	04/12/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Offences against Children: Social Media
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the (a) outcomes and (b) agreements were that he reached on online child grooming with representatives of (i) Microsoft, (ii) Facebook, (iii) Google, (iv) Snap and (v) Twitter on his recent visit to the US.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	198815
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/12/2018 answer text <p>Between 6-8 November, the Home Secretary held a series of meetings with Microsoft, Twitter, and Snap, Google and Facebook. In those meetings, the Home Secretary reiterated his personal commitment to tackle child sexual abuse and exploitation and reinforced his key demands of tech companies, which he set out in his speech on combating child sexual exploitation and abuse at the NSPCC on 3 September.</p><p>The Home Secretary also pushed for increased transparency across all their efforts to tackle abuses of their platforms and stressed the need for companies to demonstrate they were enforcing their terms and conditions.</p><p>The companies affirmed their commitment to tackling child sexual exploitation and abuse on their platforms; set out steps they are taking to develop new technologies and policies to make their platforms safer; and agreed to continue to engage closely with the government on taking further actions to detect grooming (including sharing appropriate information with partners and deploying new tools) that were appropriate for their platforms.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 12/12/2018 17:33:21 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

1019942

registered interest
date	04/12/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Offences against Children: Social Media
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps his Department is taking to encourage social media companies to tackle the grooming of young children on the platforms of those companies.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	198816
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/12/2018 answer text <p>Tackling online grooming is one of our highest priorities, and we are in-creasing our investment in law enforcement and legislating on online harms to bear down on the threat. In November the Home Secretary also co-hosted a ‘Hackathon’ in the US, where tech companies developed an artificial intelligence product to detect online grooming that will be licensed free of charge to technology companies worldwide.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 12/12/2018 17:34:11 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

1019951

registered interest
date	04/12/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Offences against Children: Internet
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what guidance his Department has issued to police forces on tackling online child abuse.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	198817
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/12/2018 answer text <p>The College of Policing, as the professional body for the Police Service is responsible for providing guidance to the police. The College of Policing’s “Vulnerability” training package, aimed at ensuring a consistent approach across all police forces, includes a programme on Child Sexual Exploitation. Further details are provided on their website:<a href="https://www.college.police.uk/What-we-do/Development/Vulnerability/Pages/Vulnerability.aspxing" target="_blank">https://www.college.police.uk/What-we-do/Development/Vulnerability/Pages/Vulnerability.aspxing</a></p><p>We have begun to drive a step change in our approach to dealing with crimes against vulnerable children and people across the country and have invested significantly in a programme of reform to help the police to respond to changing crimes. This includes significant extra investment through the Police Transformation Fund (PTF) to transform policing in response to crimes against vulnerable individuals such as child sexual abuse.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins grouped question UIN 198818 question first answered 12/12/2018 17:37:49 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

1019954

registered interest
date	04/12/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Offences against Children: Internet
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether his Department has issued guidance to police services on using an intelligence-led approach to identify children who are at risk of online exploitation.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	198818
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/12/2018 answer text <p>The College of Policing, as the professional body for the Police Service is responsible for providing guidance to the police. The College of Policing’s “Vulnerability” training package, aimed at ensuring a consistent approach across all police forces, includes a programme on Child Sexual Exploitation. Further details are provided on their website:<a href="https://www.college.police.uk/What-we-do/Development/Vulnerability/Pages/Vulnerability.aspxing" target="_blank">https://www.college.police.uk/What-we-do/Development/Vulnerability/Pages/Vulnerability.aspxing</a></p><p>We have begun to drive a step change in our approach to dealing with crimes against vulnerable children and people across the country and have invested significantly in a programme of reform to help the police to respond to changing crimes. This includes significant extra investment through the Police Transformation Fund (PTF) to transform policing in response to crimes against vulnerable individuals such as child sexual abuse.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins grouped question UIN 198817 question first answered 12/12/2018 17:37:49 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

1019957

registered interest
date	04/12/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Crime Prevention: Internet
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent discussions he has had with the Secretaries of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport and for Justice on tech companies preventing their platforms being used for criminal activity.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	198819
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/12/2018 answer text <p>Home Office Ministers have regular meetings as part of the process of policy development and delivery, including on illegal activities taking place on social media.</p><p>As was the case with previous administrations, it is not the Government's practice to provide details of all such meetings.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 12/12/2018 17:35:23 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord