Home Office: Vivastreet

(asked on 27th October 2022) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Answer of 20 November 2018 to Question 190478 on Home Office: Vivastreet, how many times (a) officials and (b) Ministers from her Department met representatives of the website company Vivastreet, (i) online or (ii) in person in each calendar year since 2017.


Answered by
Chris Philp Portrait
Chris Philp
Shadow Home Secretary
This question was answered on 1st November 2022

The Home Office and law enforcement partners, including the National Crime Agency maintains a close and collaborative working relationship with Vivastreet to identify and put in place initiatives to remove content and prevent and disrupt sexual exploitation on their website.

Since 2017, Home Office officials have met with representatives of Vivastreet, online and in person, on the following occasions during each calendar year:

Year

Meetings

2017

0

2018

4

2019

1

2020

1

2021

3

2022

6

Total

15

Home Office Ministers have not met with representatives from Vivastreet.

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