Advertising: Children
Commons · Question 28905 · Tabled 5 Feb 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport · Official record
Answered 13 Feb 2025
Question
Asked by Mark Pritchard
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will make an assessment of the effectiveness of the implementation of the Broadcasting Code by Ofcom on reducing the sexualisation of children through broadcast advertising.
Answer
Answered by Chris Bryant, 13 Feb 2025
The Advertising Standards Authority co-regulates broadcast advertising under contract with Ofcom and its sister organisation, the Broadcast Committee of Advertising Practice (BCAP), sets the advertising codes. The codes require that advertisements must no...