Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 1 November 2022 to Question 72950 on Home Office: Vivastreet, what discussions her Department has had with Adult Services Websites on developing a code of conduct for the operation of their industry; and whether she plans to publish that code.

As committed to in the Violence Against Woman and Girls Strategy, published in July 2021, the Government is working with adult service websites to explore a set of voluntary principles to counter exploitation on their sites. The principles will encourage adult service websites to take reasonable and practical steps to prevent modern slavery and exploitation on their platforms and work collaboratively with law enforcement.

The voluntary principles are still under development and will be published in due course.