Oral QuestionDepartment for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

“What steps his Department is taking to give residents greater input on local developments.”

Tabled: 10 May 2022Answered: 16 May 2022

Answering Minister

the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Answer from Hansard

The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Justice (Catherine Atkinson)

I thank my hon. Friend for her consistent efforts to raise the issue of online harms. Whether it is physical, verbal or online, abuse is abuse, and this Government are determined to tackle violence against women and girls online as well as off. We are making it illegal to take or make intimate images without consent, including deepfakes. Our new deletion orders will ensure that courts can require offenders convicted of intimate image offences to delete images of their victims. The VAWG strategy sets out our plan across Government to tackle digitally facilitated violence.