Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment his Department has made of the review Sexualisation of Young People by Dr. Linda Papadopoulos.

In December 2010 the Government commissioned Reg Bailey, the Chief Executive of Mothers' Union, to carry out a review of the commercialisation and sexualisation of childhood. Mr Bailey drew upon the review by Dr Papadopoulos and its evidence base in making his recommendations in his report, ‘Letting Children be Children', published in June 2011. The Government welcomed Mr Bailey's analysis and the thrust of all the recommendations he made, and there has been progress on many of these.