Prime Minister's Questions: Blocking of Child Sexual Abuse Images
Prime Minister’s Questions 2 July 2008
Q6. [215355] Margaret Moran MP: Following my ten-minute Bill, may I congratulate the Government on taking action to ensure that more than 90 per cent. of domestic internet service providers block child abuse images? Is my right hon. Friend aware, however, that there are concerns that similar blocks must apply to local and central Government and to prisons? Will he agree to meet me and children’s charities to ensure that all our children will be protected from this appalling abuse?
The Prime Minister: My hon. Friend has been a very vigorous campaigner on behalf of safety for children in using the internet, and it was in no small measure due to her efforts and proposals that we set up the review of internet security led by Dr. Tanya Byron. That review has proposed far greater checks on the internet to ensure security. My hon. Friend is right that we should be aware of what is happening in prisons and in local and national Government, as well as taking other measures. I will be very happy to meet her. We are setting up the internet security council in the next few weeks, and I look forward to meeting her and the children’s charities that she mentions.
Source: Hansard 2 July 2008
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