Written Question·Ministry of Justice·UIN 118810

Pornography: Children

Tabled: 9 March 2026
Answered: 16 March 2026

Question

Cat Smith

LabourLancaster and Wyre

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether the review of pornography law will include differences between online and offline regulation in relation to children’s access to sexually explicit material.

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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