Written Question·Ministry of Justice·UIN 118809

Pornography: Children

Tabled: 9 March 2026

Answered: 16 March 2026

Question

Cat Smith

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department's review of the criminal law relating to pornography will consider the adequacy of existing age-verification and age-assurance measures in preventing children from accessing online pornogra

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, recommendation 24 of Baroness Bertin’s Independent Review on Pornography:‘The current criminal jus...

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