Question follow-through · 10118
Child Sexual Abuse Material: Artificial Intelligence
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to increase enforcement action against image-editing tools powered by AI that can be used to generate child sexual abuse images.
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 16 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 22 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 23 Jun 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
16 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to increase enforcement action against image-editing tools powered by AI that can be used to generate child sexual abuse images.
22 Jun 2026
Target answer date
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23 Jun 2026
Answer published
To ensure we keep pace with changes in technology, under the Crime and Policing Act, this Government has introduced a suite of new measures to keep children safe online by tackling the growing threat of AI Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM). We have intro...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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