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Written question asked by Diana Johnson (Labour) on Tuesday, 15 November 2022, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Friday, 18 November 2022 (named day). It was answered by Chris Philp (Conservative) on Friday, 18 November 2022 on behalf of the Home Office.


Home Office: Vivastreet

Question

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, how many times (a) officials and (b) Ministers from her Department met representatives of the website company Adultwork, (i) online or (ii) in person in each calendar year since 2017.

Answer

The Home Office and law enforcement partners maintain a collaborative working relationship with online companies, including Vivastreet and Adultwork, to identify and put in place initiatives to remove content and prevent and disrupt sexual exploitation on websites. The Home Office does not intend to publish information from meetings with these online companies as this could undermine future policy development.

Further information about the Government’s work to tackle modern slavery, including with online companies can be found in the UK Modern Slavery Annual Reports between 2017 and 2021. The reports are available at Gov.uk.

2017 2017_uk_annual_report_on_modern_slavery.pdf (publishing.service.gov.uk)

2020 2020 UK annual report on modern slavery (publishing.service.gov.uk)

2021 2021 UK Annual Report on Modern Slavery (publishing.service.gov.uk)

Since 2017, Home Office officials and law enforcement partners, including the National Crime Agency met with representatives of Adultwork, online, on the following occasions during each calendar year:

Year

Meetings

2017

0

2018

3

2019

1

2020

1

2021

0

2022

0

Total

5

Home Office Ministers have not met with representatives from Adultwork.


Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
87795
Session
2022-23
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Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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