Asked by: Sandy Martin (Labour - Ipswich)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
What steps he plans to take to ensure that social media companies tackle online bullying on their platforms.
Answered by Margot James
We are committed to making the UK the safest place in the world for users to be online. In October last year we published the Internet Safety Strategy green paper. This sets out a range of measures which will ensure social media companies tackle online bullying.
We will also be introducing a social media code of practice, which will address conduct that involves bullying or insulting an individual online, or other behaviour likely to intimidate or humiliate.
Asked by: Sandy Martin (Labour - Ipswich)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department is taking to reduce the prevalence of the resale of tickets at inflated prices for theatrical, musical and other artistic performances.
Answered by Matt Hancock
We are determined to crackdown on unacceptable behaviour and improve fans’ chances of buying tickets at a reasonable price.
The Consumer Rights Act 2015 already includes rules about tickets offered for sale on the secondary market, and the Digital Economy Act passed earlier this year adds an additional requirement for ticket sellers to provide a unique ticket number when reselling a ticket resale, and provides the power to create a specific offence, where tickets are purchased electronically, of purchasing more tickets than the maximum permitted.
We have provided funding for enforcement action to be taken by Trading Standards against sellers who are in breach of consumer law.
The Competition and Markets Authority has also launched an enforcement investigation into suspected breaches of consumer protection law in the online secondary ticketing market which is hoped will drive further transparency in the secondary market.
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Asked by: Sandy Martin (Labour - Ipswich)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, when her Department plans to make an announcement on its review of fixed odds betting terminals.
Answered by Tracey Crouch
A review of gaming machines and social responsibility measures was launched in October 2016, which included a look at the Fix Odds Betting terminals. Purdah interrupted the final stages of our consideration of the evidence received and the subsequent internal, cross government process of approval and sign off. I'm afraid, therefore, that we are back at the start of the process and that as a consequence of it taking at least 12 weeks I would not expect any further announcement until October at the earliest.