Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many convictions there have been under legislation prohibiting (a) extreme (b) violent and (c) child pornography in each year for which information is available.

Convictions for offences involving extreme, violent and child pornography can be found in the Principle offence proceedings and outcomes by Home Office offence code data tool:

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/738814/HO-Code-Tool-2017.xlsx

Select the following offences in the Offence code filter:

Extreme pornography offences – 8611, 8612, 8613, 8614, 8616

Child pornography offences - 7108, 7109, 7110, 7111, 7113, 7116, 8615

For each group of offences, the number of convictions for each year can be found in the Convicted row (row 30).

‘Extreme’ and ‘violent’ pornography offences are indistinguishable from each other and fall under the grouping of ‘extreme pornography offences’.