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Lords Chamber
Telecommunications Fraud: Reimbursement of Victims - Wed 14 May 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Hanson of Flint (Lab - Life peer) I live in a semi-rural area in north Wales myself and those issues are important, but they are not directly - Speech Link
2: Lord Hanson of Flint (Lab - Life peer) The noble Baroness has mentioned the fraudulent advertising duty, which, again, is a key part of the - Speech Link
3: Lord Vaizey of Didcot (Con - Life peer) There is a no man’s land, as it were, between Ofcom and the Information Commissioner’s Office, so it - Speech Link

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Select Committee

3rd Report - The rights of older people

Report Feb. 19 2025

Committee: Women and Equalities Committee

Found: 12 Attitudes towards use of ageist stereotypes in the media and advertising 12 Broadcasting and advertising

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Grand Committee
Gambling Levy Regulations 2025 - Wed 12 Feb 2025
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Baroness Twycross (Lab - Life peer) of the levy funding for prevention, I confirmed to the House this morning that we will appoint the Office - Speech Link
2: Lord Kirkhope of Harrogate (Con - Life peer) I was the Minister in the Home Office responsible for gambling—or controlling gambling, I should say, - Speech Link
3: Baroness Armstrong of Hill Top (Lab - Life peer) It demonstrates that you can remove a lot of gambling advertising without affecting the main work of - Speech Link

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Select Committee

Correspondence from GambleAware relating to the 2 April evidence session

Correspondence Apr. 29 2025

Committee: Health and Social Care Committee (Department: Department of Health and Social Care)

Found: 7JH gambleaware.org GambleAware Registered in England: No 4384279 Charity No England & Wales

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Public Bill Committees
Tobacco and Vapes Bill (Twelfth sitting)
Committee stage: 12th Sitting - Thu 23 Jan 2025
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Andrew Gwynne (LAB - Gorton and Denton) These clauses concern the defences and exemptions to the advertising bans on relevant products—tobacco - Speech Link
2: Caroline Johnson (Con - Sleaford and North Hykeham) I must have had a moment.Clause 120 concerns advertising defences. - Speech Link
3: Andrew Gwynne (LAB - Gorton and Denton) Any advertising the retailers have cannot be visible from outside the premises. - Speech Link
4: Gregory Stafford (Con - Farnham and Bordon) Clearly, indirect advertising through sponsorship is a subtle form of advertising, associating brands - Speech Link
5: Danny Chambers (LD - Winchester) It seems outrageous that they should be advertising harmful products. - Speech Link

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Written Question

Prostitution: Edinburgh North and Leith

Thursday 24th October 2024

Asked by: Tracy Gilbert (Labour - Edinburgh North and Leith)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to prevent organised crime groups advertising victims of (a) trafficking and (b) other sexual exploitation offences on websites advertising prostitution in Edinburgh North and Leith constituency.

Answered by Jess Phillips - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)

The trafficking of women and girls for sexual exploitation is a truly horrific crime. This Government has committed to halve violence against women and girls in a decade, and we will use all of our levers to deliver this.

The criminal justice system and support for victims are devolved matters. However, given the cross-border nature of sexual exploitation, the Home Office works closely with the Scottish Government and law enforcement partners to ensure our approach to victim identification and support, and our pursuit of perpetrators is joined up.

We have several ways to estimate the scale of sexual exploitation. Victims of sexual exploitation make up a significant proportion of referrals to the National Referral Mechanism (the framework for identifying and referring potential victims of modern slavery to appropriate support). The most recent statistics show that in 2023, sexual exploitation accounted for 10% (1,679) of all referrals, a 2% increase from the previous year, with 9% (1,470) of referrals relating to women. The Home Office does not hold data specific to Edinburgh North and Leith. However, between January and June 2024, there were 13 potential victims of modern slavery referred to the NRM who reported (either part or whole) sexual exploitation which was disclosed as occurring in the City of Edinburgh. We understand this will not be the full extent.

Available academic research on prostitution highlights the challenges in estimating prevalence. Research conducted by the University of Bristol focusing on England and Wales was unable to identify a single prevalence estimate. However, it assessed a number of existing national estimates made over the last 20 years which ranged from 35,882 to 104,964, across England and Wales.

Online platforms are a significant enabler of sexual exploitation. The Online Safety Act 2023 sets out priority offences, including sexual exploitation and human trafficking offences, and companies will need to adopt measures and put in place systems and processes to identify, assess and address these offences based on a risk assessment.

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Public Bill Committees
Tobacco and Vapes Bill (Sixth sitting)
Committee stage: 6th Sitting - Tue 14 Jan 2025
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Andrew Gwynne (LAB - Gorton and Denton) I have had umpteen meetings personally with my counterparts in Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland, - Speech Link
2: Jack Rankin (Con - Windsor) In previous clauses, we have also seen that replicated for Wales. - Speech Link
3: None found TikTok screenshots advertising vapes for sale with no ID check. - Speech Link
4: Andrew Gwynne (LAB - Gorton and Denton) and brands instructing them to stop any advertising on TikTok. - Speech Link
5: Caroline Johnson (Con - Sleaford and North Hykeham) Mary—so one cannot get away from the advertising of those products even if one wishes to. - Speech Link

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