Question follow-through · 28905
Advertising: Children
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.
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- Answering body
- Department for Culture, Media and Sport
- Tabled
- 5 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 10 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 13 Feb 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
5 Feb 2025
Question tabled
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.
10 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
13 Feb 2025
Answer published
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...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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BBC: British Nationals Abroad
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