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1087528

	registered interest
	date	12/03/2019
	answering body	Attorney General
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	hansard heading	Obscenity: Prosecutions
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what discussions they have had with the (1) Director of Public Prosecutions, and (2) Crown Prosecution Service, on whether an imported child sex doll falls within the definition of an obscene article under the Customs Consolidation Act 1876.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Howe of Idlicote
	uin	HL14452
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/03/2019 answer text <p>The Crown Prosecution Service has prosecuted the importation of child sex dolls under the provisions of the Customs Consolidation Act 1876, in conjunction with the Customs and Excise Management Act 1979, where there is sufficient evidence to do so and a prosecution is required in the public interest. The CPS intends to issue guidance to assist prosecutors considering such allegations shortly.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Keen of Elie question first answered 25/03/2019 13:45:06 answering member 4538 label Biography information for Lord Keen of Elie
	tabling member	3610 label Biography information for Baroness Howe of Idlicote

420502

	registered interest
	date	12/10/2015
	answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept id	10
	answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
	hansard heading	Internet: Children
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the comments by Baroness Shields on 17 July (HL Deb, col 862), what measures regarding the protection of children’s safety online are being considered in the strategic defence and security review.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Howe of Idlicote
	uin	HL2477
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2015 answer text <p>The Government remains committed to improving the safety of children online and continues to make significant progress in a variety of areas. The Government is working through the multi-stakeholder UK Council for Child Internet Safety to drive further progress, and maintain our position as a world leader in child internet safety.</p><p>At the “We Protect Summit” next month, we are seeking to promote a ModelNational Response that will provide guidance and support to countries on thecapabilities they need to have in place to combat online child sexual exploitation – which will in turn improve global coordination and our capability to act to protect the safety and human rights of children all over the world.</p><p>This will inform work on the relevant aspects of the 2015 National Security Strategy and Strategic Defence and Security Review.</p> answering member printed Baroness Shields question first answered 22/10/2015 12:18:35 answering member 4325 label Biography information for Baroness Shields
	tabling member	3610 label Biography information for Baroness Howe of Idlicote

420503

	registered interest
	date	12/10/2015
	answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept id	10
	answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
	hansard heading	Internet: Children
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the comments by Baroness Shields on 17 July (HL Deb, col 860), how European regulations on net neutrality will affect family-friendly filters being provided by internet service providers.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Howe of Idlicote
	uin	HL2478
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2015 answer text <p>Throughout the negotiations of the Telecoms Single Market package, the Government pushed for the best outcome for UK consumers. The UK was instrumental in altering the original proposals on net neutrality to ensure that the outcome was a balanced, principles-based package that protects the open internet, while supporting innovation and keeping the UK’s current world class child protection measures in place.</p><p>We are considering the best method to ensure continuity for our filters regime and will be providing an update in due course.</p> answering member printed Baroness Shields question first answered 22/10/2015 12:19:05 answering member 4325 label Biography information for Baroness Shields
	tabling member	3610 label Biography information for Baroness Howe of Idlicote

420504

	registered interest
	date	12/10/2015
	answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept id	10
	answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
	hansard heading	Pornography: Internet
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government when they plan to consult on their manifesto commitment to require age verification for pornography websites.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Howe of Idlicote
	uin	HL2479
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2015 answer text <p>The Prime Minister announced on 29 July that there would be a consultation on the Government’s manifesto commitment to require age verification for websites containing pornographic material. The Department for Culture, Media and Sport is currently preparing the consultation documents.</p><p>I would like to thank the Noble Lady for her tireless efforts in this area and hope she will engage in the consultation when it is launched for publication later this year.</p><br /> answering member printed Baroness Shields question first answered 22/10/2015 12:19:29 answering member 4325 label Biography information for Baroness Shields
	tabling member	3610 label Biography information for Baroness Howe of Idlicote

433638

	registered interest
	date	02/12/2015
	answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept id	10
	answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
	hansard heading	Video on Demand
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what consultation took place with relevant stakeholders before the announcement that video-on-demand programme services would be regulated by Ofcom from 1 January 2016.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Howe of Idlicote
	uin	HL4148
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2015 answer text <p>From 1 January 2016, Video on Demand (VOD) services will be regulated by Ofcom, following an internal review to ensure the regulation of broadcast is as effective and efficient as possible, for the benefit of customers, audiences, and the industry. Ofcom will act as the sole regulator for VOD services, rather than two separate bodies carrying out this work, creating operational efficiencies and allowing editorial content on VOD services to sit alongside Ofcom’s existing regulation of broadcasting.</p><p>Ofcom has communicated the outcome and reasons for its decision to stakeholders. More information can be found here :<a href="http://media.ofcom.org.uk/news/2015/1520333/" target="_blank">http://media.ofcom.org.uk/news/2015/1520333/</a></p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe grouped question UIN HL4149 question first answered 16/12/2015 14:24:13 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
	tabling member	3610 label Biography information for Baroness Howe of Idlicote

433639

	registered interest
	date	02/12/2015
	answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept id	10
	answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
	hansard heading	Video on Demand
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they will place in the Library of the House the report of, or other documentation from, Ofcom's strategic review that led to the decision that Ofcom should regulate video-on-demand programme services from 1 January 2016.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Howe of Idlicote
	uin	HL4149
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2015 answer text <p>From 1 January 2016, Video on Demand (VOD) services will be regulated by Ofcom, following an internal review to ensure the regulation of broadcast is as effective and efficient as possible, for the benefit of customers, audiences, and the industry. Ofcom will act as the sole regulator for VOD services, rather than two separate bodies carrying out this work, creating operational efficiencies and allowing editorial content on VOD services to sit alongside Ofcom’s existing regulation of broadcasting.</p><p>Ofcom has communicated the outcome and reasons for its decision to stakeholders. More information can be found here :<a href="http://media.ofcom.org.uk/news/2015/1520333/" target="_blank">http://media.ofcom.org.uk/news/2015/1520333/</a></p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe grouped question UIN HL4148 question first answered 16/12/2015 14:24:13 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
	tabling member	3610 label Biography information for Baroness Howe of Idlicote

433640

	registered interest
	date	02/12/2015
	answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept id	10
	answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
	hansard heading	Broadcasting: Children
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how a child is defined within the Ofcom Broadcasting Code.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Howe of Idlicote
	uin	HL4150
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2015 answer text <p>For the purposes of protecting children from viewing or listening to unsuitable material, section one of the Broadcasting Code defines children as those aged under fifteen years. For the purporses of safeguarding children involved in programmes, the Code protects all young people under the age of eighteen.</p> answering member printed Baroness Shields question first answered 15/12/2015 17:29:03 answering member 4325 label Biography information for Baroness Shields
	tabling member	3610 label Biography information for Baroness Howe of Idlicote

433641

	registered interest
	date	02/12/2015
	answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept id	10
	answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
	hansard heading	Broadcasting: Children
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how Ofcom is ensuring that persons under the age of 18 are protected from inappropriate content in television and radio services.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Howe of Idlicote
	uin	HL4151
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2015 answer text <p>Section One of the Broadcasting Code serves to protect children from unsuitable content in television and radio services. The rules in this section include specific provisions, and cover areas such as drugs, smoking, violence and dangerous behaviour, offensive language, sexual material and nudity. The rules also specifically protect children before the watershed on television at 9pm and at times when they are particularly likely to be listening to radio services. Ofcom enforces these rules robustly, and can impose statutory sanctions on any broadcaster that breaches them.</p> answering member printed Baroness Shields question first answered 15/12/2015 17:29:48 answering member 4325 label Biography information for Baroness Shields
	tabling member	3610 label Biography information for Baroness Howe of Idlicote

510215

	registered interest
	date	11/04/2016
	answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept id	10
	answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
	hansard heading	Gambling: Internet
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many times payment providers have (1) been asked to block payments to online gambling websites not licensed in the UK, and (2) blocked such payments, since the Gambling (Licensing and Advertising) Act 2014 came into force.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Howe of Idlicote
	uin	HL7421
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/04/2016 answer text <p>Since the Gambling (Licensing and Advertising) Act 2014 came into force there have been 11 occasions where the Gambling Commission has asked payment providers to prevent payments to online gambling website operators not licensed in the UK but believed to be transacting with consumers in Great Britain. On all 11 occasions the payment provider either terminated their relationship with the unlicensed operator or took steps to ensure that the unlicensed gambling website was no longer available to consumers in Great Britain.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, the Gambling Commission are aware of additional instances where payment providers have, of their own initiative, terminated agreements with unlicensed gambling websites transacting with consumers in Great Britain. The Commission are unable to quantify these instances because payment providers are not obliged to report these cases unless the action is instigated by the Commission.</p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 21/04/2016 11:51:44 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
	tabling member	3610 label Biography information for Baroness Howe of Idlicote

510216

	registered interest
	date	11/04/2016
	answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept id	10
	answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
	hansard heading	Gambling: Internet
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the number of foreign online gambling websites not licensed in the UK that are being accessed from the UK.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Howe of Idlicote
	uin	HL7422
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/04/2016 answer text <p>The Gambling Commission monitors this through the complaints received from customers and licensed operators, and other sources of intelligence. It is not possible to state precisely how many individual unlicensed websites there are, however, where websites are identified that are offering facilities for gambling to customers in Britain without the appropriate licence the Commission will take action to ensure they cease these activities. Since November 2014 the Commission has written to approximately 60 foreign online gambling websites, to remind them of the legal position and require them to immediately cease their activities in Great Britain.</p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 21/04/2016 14:02:36 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
	tabling member	3610 label Biography information for Baroness Howe of Idlicote