Coroners and Justice Bill

Part of the debate – in a Public Bill Committee at 12:00 pm on 5 February 2009.

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Photo of Alun Michael Alun Michael Labour, Cardiff South and Penarth 12:00, 5 February 2009

I want to go back to Mr. Bellingham’s question. You may need to cover this in supplement too. The UK has been particularly successful in taking down images of child abuse online, but that whole operation and the co-operation between industry and non-governmental organisations and the enforcement authorities has thrown up a lot of evidence and cases to be investigated—the actual abuse, as distinct from the images online. The likely number of prosecutions and the extent to which success is being achieved in both the investigation and the follow-up of those cases arising out of the identification of images where they are sourced within the UK are important issues. Could you clarify that for us, both in terms of what is happening at the present and the projections?