{"value":{"id":1832995,"askingMemberId":4131,"askingMember":null,"house":"Commons","memberHasInterest":false,"dateTabled":"2025-09-08T00:00:00","dateForAnswer":"2025-09-10T00:00:00","uin":"75595","questionText":"To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will take steps to ensure that television documentaries that contain pornographic scenes are (a) censored and (b) blocked.","answeringBodyId":217,"answeringBodyName":"Department for Culture, Media and Sport","isWithdrawn":false,"isNamedDay":false,"groupedQuestions":[],"answerIsHolding":false,"answerIsCorrection":false,"answeringMemberId":3966,"answeringMember":null,"correctingMemberId":null,"correctingMember":null,"dateAnswered":"2025-09-17T00:00:00","answerText":"<p>Broadcast regulation is a matter for the independent regulator Ofcom. The Broadcasting Code prohibits material equivalent to the British Board of Film Classification R18-rating. Adult sex material, as defined by Ofcom, must not be broadcast at any time other than between 10pm and 5.30am on channels with mandatory restricted access, such as requiring a PIN.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Broadcasters must ensure that material broadcast after the 9pm watershed, which contains images and/or language of a strong or explicit sexual nature, but is not ‘adult sex material’, is justified by the context. Representations of sexual intercourse must not occur before the watershed, unless there is a serious educational purpose.</p><p> </p>","originalAnswerText":"","comparableAnswerText":"","dateAnswerCorrected":null,"dateHoldingAnswer":null,"attachmentCount":0,"heading":"Television: Pornography","attachments":[],"groupedQuestionsDates":[]},"links":[{"rel":"self","href":"/Questions/1832995","method":"GET"}]}