Mentions:
1: Lucy Frazer (CON - South East Cambridgeshire) We know that creative businesses flourish in geographic clusters, from games in Leamington Spa to fashion - Speech Link
2: Carolyn Harris (LAB - Swansea East) Loot boxes in gaming are unquestionably a slippery path to normalising gambling. - Speech Link
3: Stuart Andrew (CON - Pudsey) Member says, and we have committed to ensuring that video games can be enjoyed safely by everyone. - Speech Link
4: Andrew Selous (CON - South West Bedfordshire) people taking their own lives as a result of gambling debts. - Speech Link
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1: Lord Weir of Ballyholme (DUP - Life peer) Let us take the example of a video encouraging the so-called blackout challenge, or choking challenge - Speech Link
2: None There is disappointment at times across the House at the slow progress in enforcing the video-sharing - Speech Link
3: None work of Professor Bowden-Jones, which included the spectre of children so addicted to reward loops of games - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lucy Frazer (CON - South East Cambridgeshire) Loot boxes are features in some video games that contain apparently randomised items. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Kidron (CB - Life peer) article published over the weekend by Professor Henrietta Bowden-Jones, the UK’s foremost expert on gambling - Speech Link
2: Lord Knight of Weymouth (LAB - Life peer) ”, “FIFA”, “Minecraft”, “Call of Duty” and “Roblox”—all games routinely accessed by children. - Speech Link
3: Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay (CON - Life peer) We want to see the games industry take the lead in strengthening protections for children and adults - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Finlay of Llandaff (CB - Life peer) Decentraland” avatar pops up on gaming sites, and it is useful because it warns you about the dangers of gambling - Speech Link
2: Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay (CON - Life peer) That includes a broad range of services, such as websites, applications, social media services, video - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: None We should not put that enforcement activity at risk of the legal stalling games that these sites will - Speech Link
2: Lord Curry of Kirkharle (CB - Life peer) However, when looking at Ofcom’s implementation of existing provisions on video-sharing platforms, the - Speech Link
3: Lord Allan of Hallam (LDEM - Life peer) I am reminded by my noble friend Lord Foster of Bath, particularly relating to the gambling sector, that - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: None The complaints mechanism in the video-sharing platform regulation regime is being repealed without an - Speech Link
2: Baroness Harding of Winscombe (CON - Life peer) Government do not want to do what they have just announced they want to do in other sectors such as gambling - Speech Link
3: Baroness Fraser of Craigmaddie (CON - Life peer) We can compare other data by nation, for example on drug use or gambling addiction. - Speech Link
4: Lord Allan of Hallam (LDEM - Life peer) Two examples are the Tide Pods challenge—the eating of detergent capsules—and choking games, both of - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick (LAB - Life peer) age-inappropriate or otherwise inherently harmful content and activity (like pornography, violent material, gambling - Speech Link
2: None Over half of the games on Google Play now include loot boxes and more than 93% of games that feature - Speech Link
3: Baroness Benjamin (LDEM - Life peer) an investigation into TikTok by the Telegraph, which found that a 13 year-old boy was recommended a video - Speech Link
4: Lord Bethell (CON - Excepted Hereditary) Within two minutes, multiple messages were received from men, and within five minutes a video call. - Speech Link
5: Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay (CON - Life peer) That includes a broad range of services such as websites, applications, social media sites, video games - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Bishop of Oxford (Bishops - Bishops) According to Ofcom, nine in 10 children in the UK play video games, and they do so on devices ranging - Speech Link
2: Baroness Benjamin (LDEM - Life peer) Amendments 33A and 217A seek to regulate online video games to ensure they meet the same BBFC ratings - Speech Link
3: None Apple uses its own age ratings, rather than PEGI ratings, on all the video games available on its App - Speech Link
4: None Online games in the UK can obtain PEGI ratings by applying directly to the Video Standards Council or - Speech Link
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1: Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent (LAB - Life peer) But the video actually featured anti-Hezbollah chants. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Campbell of Surbiton (CB - Life peer) The committee heard evidence of extreme levels of abuse, not only on social media but in online games - Speech Link
3: Baroness Finlay of Llandaff (CB - Life peer) Hence the alcoholic, the gambling addict, the drug addict and so on keep going back for more; the sex - Speech Link
4: Viscount Colville of Culross (CB - Excepted Hereditary) of a meteor shower was mistaken by the Twitter algorithms for a porn video. - Speech Link
5: Lord Storey (LDEM - Life peer) systems and processes, including blogs and websites that promote and encourage disordered eating, online games - Speech Link