Oral Question·Home Office
“What steps her Department is taking to help ensure the effective implementation of the Beating Crime Plan.”
Tabled: 23 September 2021Answered: 18 October 2021
Answering Minister
the Secretary of State for the Home Department
Answer from Hansard
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Justice (Alex Davies-Jones)
We are introducing new offences of taking intimate images without consent and installing equipment with intent to commit such offences. We are also criminalising creating deepfake intimate images without consent. I proudly co-chair the violence against women and girls ministerial group, which oversees a cross-Government approach to tackling VAWG, including online abuse.