<p>The Department for Work and Pensions uses internet filtering facilities, provided by one of its IT</p><p><?notus-xml column=298?></p><p>suppliers, to protect its computer network and staff from accessing the following types of websites.</p><p>The list of blocked website categories is as follows:</p><p>Adult/Sexually Explicit</p><p>Chat</p><p>Criminal Activity</p><p>Downloads</p><p>Gambling</p><p>Games</p><p>Hacking</p><p>Illegal Drugs</p><p>Intolerance and Hate</p><p>Peer-to-peer</p><p>Personals and Dating</p><p>Phishing and Fraud</p><p>Proxies and translators</p><p>Ringtones/Mobile phone downloads</p><p>Spam URLs</p><p>Spyware</p><p>Streaming media</p><p>Tasteless and Offensive</p><p>Unscannable</p><p>Violence</p><p>Weapons</p><p>Web-based e-mail</p>