Written Question·Ministry of Justice·UIN 113253

Pornography: Children

Tabled: 12 February 2026

Answered: 9 March 2026

Named Day

Question

Ruth Jones

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether the forthcoming review of the criminal law relating to pornography will assess the effectiveness of current a) age-verification and b) age-assurance measures in preventing children from accessing online p

Answer

Alex Davies-Jones

On 9 December 2025, during the House of Lords Committee Stage debate on the Crime and Policing Bill, the Government announced that it would accept, in part, one of the recommendations from Baroness Bertin’s Independent Review on Pornography, namely recomm...

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