Written Answers — Business, Innovation and Skills: Business: Government Assistance (13 Jun 2013)
Claire Perry: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what assessment he has made of the recommendations of Lord Young's report on Growing Your Business.

Opposition Day — [2nd Allotted Day] — Protecting Children Online (12 Jun 2013)
Claire Perry: Will the hon. Lady give way?

Opposition Day — [2nd Allotted Day] — Protecting Children Online (12 Jun 2013)
Claire Perry: If the hon. Gentleman will forgive me, I will try to make progress before taking another intervention. In addition, as the Minister has said, the ISPs are trialling ways in which to get the filter into the installed base. The sea change in attitude among the ISPs-British companies that are family-friendly trusted brands and want to sell us stuff-has been enormous. That is a...

Opposition Day — [2nd Allotted Day] — Protecting Children Online (12 Jun 2013)
Claire Perry: I came to this agenda as a mother, a feminist and someone who is deeply concerned about the long-term social experiment we are conducting with our young children. The hon. Member for Slough (Fiona Mactaggart) said it was good that we had an atheist leftie on the panel as that helped balance out some of the others, and it truly was a coalition of many minds coming together-I hope that...

Opposition Day — [2nd Allotted Day] — Protecting Children Online (12 Jun 2013)
Claire Perry: I am grateful, as always, for the chance to speak in and listen to a debate in the House on this incredibly important topic, and I will not focus on the unfortunate partisan tone of some of the proposals. I would love to support the motion, and if it had been better worded or perhaps more accurate it would have been easier to do so. I want to respond specifically to some of the criticisms...

Opposition Day — [2nd Allotted Day] — Protecting Children Online (12 Jun 2013)
Claire Perry: I have not, but retailers source their wi-fi from a small number of providers, which have agreed to provide what is effectively clean public wi-fi. We asked the Government for a formal consultation on opt-in filtering and got it. As the hon. Member for Bishop Auckland (Helen Goodman) has rightly said, it is not clear that the consultation was entirely representative and democratic. However,...

Opposition Day — [2nd Allotted Day] — Protecting Children Online (12 Jun 2013)
Claire Perry: My hon. Friend is absolutely right that we have two separate buckets. Some imagery is unequivocally illegal, but we would find other imagery exceptionally unpalatable and not want our young people to see it. Given that 88% of mainstream porn involves violence against women, we need to improve the filters to try to stop that coming into the home. Another recommendation of the cross-party...

Opposition Day — [2nd Allotted Day] — Protecting Children Online (12 Jun 2013)
Claire Perry: I am grateful to the hon. Lady. May I extend the offer that has been open for almost three years to every Member of this House who feels that they can help push this agenda forward to please share their experiences and be involved? Please do not make this a partisan issue, because when we do that, industry drives a bus through Parliament. That is what we must avoid.

Opposition Day — [2nd Allotted Day] — Protecting Children Online (12 Jun 2013)
Claire Perry: Does my hon. Friend share my almost despair that, while some Members present, such as the hon. Members for Slough (Fiona Mactaggart) for Swansea West (Geraint Davies) and for Bishop Auckland (Helen Goodman), have been intimately involved in this agenda for two and a half years, others who are heckling and shouting from a sedentary position have, to be frank, shown no interest whatsoever in...

Opposition Day — [2nd Allotted Day] — Protecting Children Online (12 Jun 2013)
Claire Perry: indicated dissent.