Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Oral Answers to Questions

Graham P Jones Excerpts
Wednesday 12th March 2014

(10 years, 7 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Lord Maude of Horsham Portrait Mr Maude
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As my hon. Friend knows, I was in Wales last week, and the deficiencies of the health service under Labour guidance in Wales were a subject of constant discussion.

Graham P Jones Portrait Graham Jones (Hyndburn) (Lab)
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T8. Last weekend I was searching for a V14 form to return a tax disc, I did a search on Google, and a copycat website came up offering services that cost money. What efforts are being made by the Government to work with the advertising agencies to try to deal with copycat websites that are ripping people off?

Lord Maude of Horsham Portrait Mr Maude
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My colleagues in the Department for Culture, Media and Sport and I had a meeting with Google and others last week to address exactly this issue. We are taking urgent steps, with Google and with the Advertising Standards Authority, to address it. It is a real concern, the hon. Gentleman is right to raise it and we are on the case.