Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 15 November 2022 to Question 87795 on Home Office: Vivastreet, whether (a) officials and (b) Ministers from her Department have had (i) online and (ii) in-person meetings with representatives of other adult services websites in each year since 2017.

Pursuant to the answer of 15 November 2022 to questions 87795 and 87796, Home Office officials attended an online Adult Services Websites (ASWs) industry event jointly organised with the National Crime Agency in June 2022, to discuss the provisions of the Online Safety Bill and the obligations it will place on companies. This event included representatives from the following ASWs and Classified Advertising Platforms:

EuroGirlsEscort;

Gumtree;

Friday-Ad;

Kommons;

Locanto;

Skokka; and

Ybirds

Since 2017, Ministers have not met with representatives of ASWs.