Internet (Child Pornography)

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Home – in the House of Commons at 2:30 pm on 13 February 2006.

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Photo of Judy Mallaber Judy Mallaber Labour, Amber Valley 2:30, 13 February 2006

I welcome the work being undertaken by Government and the industry, but a BT survey showed that last week 35,000 attempts were made daily by its internet customers to download child porn websites—a three-fold increase, all blocked by BT's clean feed technology. However, one in five British households still have unrestricted, unfettered access to such illegal images of children being abused. That is outrageous. Will my hon. Friend put the industry on notice that those of its members who refuse to sort out their act had better do so before we introduce regulation to force them to introduce that technology?