Question follow-through · 107872
Child Sexual Abuse Material: Artificial Intelligence
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what timeline her Department has for introducing regulations that ensure generative AI cannot be misused to create extreme sexual abuse material involving children.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 22 Jan 2026
- Target answer date
- 26 Jan 2026
- Answer
- 5 Feb 2026 · 14 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
22 Jan 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what timeline her Department has for introducing regulations that ensure generative AI cannot be misused to create extreme sexual abuse material involving children.
26 Jan 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
5 Feb 2026
Answer published
The Government recognises the serious and evolving threat posed by AI being misused to create child sexual abuse material. We know offenders will seek to exploit emerging technologies for their own sexual gratification.AI-generated child sexual abuse is n...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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