Question follow-through · 3915

Pupils: Photographs

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the risks posed by the misuse of publicly available school photographs by criminals using artificial intelligence to generate child sexual abuse images; what guidance

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Answering body
Department for Education
Tabled
21 May 2026
Target answer date
1 Jun 2026
Answer
2 Jun 2026 · 12 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 21 May 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the risks posed by the misuse of publicly available school photographs by criminals using artificial intelligence to generate child sexual abuse images; what guidance

  2. 1 Jun 2026

    Target answer date

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  3. 2 Jun 2026

    Answer published

    UK law is clear: it is an offence to produce, store, share or search for any material that contains or depicts child sexual abuse, regardless of whether the material is AI generated or not. Any suspected instances of blackmail or extortion linked to the m...

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