Question to the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology:

To ask His Majesty's Government what consideration they have given to enabling the British Board of Film Classification to perform a formal auditing role for online pornography platforms to ensure online-offline regulatory parity.

The Government announced the joint pornography team as part of the VAWG strategy in December. In March, it committed to produce a delivery plan setting out how the government can most effectively close the gap between the regulation of online and offline pornographic content. This will test audit and reporting functions and will consider which regulatory frameworks can best address the issue, noting the interactions with the BBFC’s existing remit and that of Ofcom under the Online Safety Act.