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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

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