Written questions

Pornography: Children

Commons · Question 113253 · Tabled 12 Feb 2026 · Ministry of Justice · Official record

Answered 9 Mar 2026

Question

Asked by 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

Answered by Alex Davies-Jones, 9 Mar 2026

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...