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749335

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date	06/07/2017
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Internet: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment she has made of the safety of children who play interactional games online with strangers.
tabling member constituency	Ceredigion
tabling member printed	Ben Lake
uin	3493
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2017 answer text <p>In 2015, the UK Council for Child Internet Safety published a practical guide for providers of social media and interactive services to encourage businesses to think about “safety by design” to help make their platforms safer for children and young people under 18. The guide has examples of good practice from leading technology companies, and advice from NGOs and other online child safety experts and includes advice on interactive games.</p><p> </p><p>Work has started on the DCMS-led cross-government internet safety strategy which will give us the opportunity to consider issues of online safety for children and young people, including gaming. We are considering how this will be taken forward under the Digital Charter.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 11/07/2017 12:51:38 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4630 label Biography information for Ben Lake

749336

registered interest
date	06/07/2017
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Video Games: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department takes to prevent parents and guardians buying video games for children which are not certified as appropriate for a child's age.
tabling member constituency	Ceredigion
tabling member printed	Ben Lake
uin	3494
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2017 answer text <p>The Pegi age ratings and content advice on video games - and on associated marketing materials such as tv advertisements - help parents and guardians make informed choices about the products they purchase for children or allow them to access. We encourage those responsible for children to look carefully at the ratings and pictograms, on boxed products, on downloadable content, and also to consider using parental controls on gaming and mobile devices to manage access.</p><p> </p><p>We will continue to work with industry and the age ratings bodies on further promotion of the Pegi age ratings and advice about safe gaming, including through initiatives such as AskAboutGames.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 11/07/2017 12:48:11 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4630 label Biography information for Ben Lake

749341

registered interest
date	06/07/2017
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Video Games: Classification Schemes
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment she has made of the effect of downloading of additional content of videogames that will potentially change the age classification of the game.
tabling member constituency	Ceredigion
tabling member printed	Ben Lake
uin	3440
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2017 answer text <p>The Pegi classification system for video games considers the potential for additional downloadable content to diverge from the age rating of the initial product. Under the terms of the certificates issued for games by the UK’s Games Rating Authority (GRA), where subsequent content offered for download is not appropriate to the Pegi rating issued, the new material must be notified to the GRA so they can review and award a new Pegi rating.</p><p>Video games publishers failing to comply face fines from Pegi of up to 500,000 Euros.</p><p> </p><p>In the last 12 months the GRA has received seven submissions of additional downloadable content from games publishers. They considered that none of these needed a higher Pegi rating than the original game.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 11/07/2017 12:45:02 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4630 label Biography information for Ben Lake