To ask Her Majesty's Government when and how they intend to deliver the legislative changes identified in the policy paper Connectivity, Content and Consumers—Britain's digital platform for growth, published by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport in July 2013.
Answered on
14 July 2014
The Connectivity, Content and Consumers paper set out the Government�s vision and strategy for the communications sector. As well as a range of non-legislative measures, it proposed a small number of targeted, incremental legislative changes. Government is in the process of implementing these proposals. We have introduced Secondary Legislation to enable Ofcom to share information with the Information Commissioner�s Office about organisations that may be breaking the rules. We are also in the process of introducing Secondary Legislation to ensure that video-on-demand material that would be rated R18 by the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) is put behind access controls, and to ban the provision of video-on-demand material that would not receive any classification by the BBFC.
Other legislative measures will be taken forward as soon as parliamentary time allows.