Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what resources her Department has allocated to law enforcement agencies to help tackle the level of Child Sexual Exploitation cases due to AI.

UK law is clear that AI generated child sexual abuse images are illegal material. We invest in capabilities across law enforcement to identify and disrupt child sexual abuse, which includes offences involving AI generated child sexual abuse material.

This financial year, the Home Office provided over £17 million to build the workforce capacity and technical capability of the National Crime Agency, and over £11 million to resource undercover online officers.

This funding targets the highest harm and most technologically sophisticated child sexual abuse offenders.