PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Pornography: Internet (7 February 2019)

Question Asked

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of banning online hardcore pornography.

Asked by:
Sir John Hayes (Conservative)

Answer

The Home Office has no specific remit in respect of consumption of pornography and therefore has not made any such assessment.

The Government Equalities Office are commissioning qualitative research to look into any relationship between pornography and attitudes to women and girls due to be finalised in Summer 2019.


Answered by:
Victoria Atkins (Conservative)
5 March 2019

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