Vaizey: No Estimate of Inappropriate Games Sold to Minors
As PEGI looks like happening in July
Replying to a question from Chris Ruane the Labour MP for Vale of Clwyd regarding "the proportion of video games sold to children which have violence as a theme" Edward Vaizey Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Culture, Communications and Creative Industries has responded, "No estimates have been made."
Vaizey, the Conservative MP for Wantage, continued:
"We have in place a regulatory system to prevent the sale of such products to children. Under the Video Recordings Act, any video games featuring gross violence are given a 15 or 18 age rating by the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC). It is then an offence to sell or rent games carrying these BBFC ratings to anyone not old enough.
"We are further strengthening the statutory regime. Under changes currently being implemented, we are making the Pan European Game Information (PEGI) system the sole method of classifying all video games in the UK and the statutory backing will be extended so that it will be an offence to supply games rated 12, as well as those with the high ratings to anyone not meeting the specific age requirements."
This chimes with statements made by UKIE CEO Dr. Jo Twist who told MCV, “Our next major campaign launches this summer to promote PEGI and to demystify video games to parents.
“This campaign will launch when PEGI is finally implemented. PEGI is indeed progressing and the latest estimated implementation date is this July.”
Sources:
MCV
Theyworkforyou
Vaizey, the Conservative MP for Wantage, continued:
"We have in place a regulatory system to prevent the sale of such products to children. Under the Video Recordings Act, any video games featuring gross violence are given a 15 or 18 age rating by the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC). It is then an offence to sell or rent games carrying these BBFC ratings to anyone not old enough.
"We are further strengthening the statutory regime. Under changes currently being implemented, we are making the Pan European Game Information (PEGI) system the sole method of classifying all video games in the UK and the statutory backing will be extended so that it will be an offence to supply games rated 12, as well as those with the high ratings to anyone not meeting the specific age requirements."
This chimes with statements made by UKIE CEO Dr. Jo Twist who told MCV, “Our next major campaign launches this summer to promote PEGI and to demystify video games to parents.
“This campaign will launch when PEGI is finally implemented. PEGI is indeed progressing and the latest estimated implementation date is this July.”
Sources:
MCV
Theyworkforyou
Companies:
UKIE
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Comments
DoctorDee 26 Apr 2012 16:33
1/2
I'll give him an estimate: "A Metric f**kload!"
ghoti 27 Apr 2012 13:08
2/2
So they don't even know how much of a problem this is, yet they're going ahead and ditching the familiar BBFC ratings for PEGI, which looks more like a recommendation system.
What a bunch of monkey touchers.
What a bunch of monkey touchers.