Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what modelling her Department has made on the projected annual number of custodial sentences that will be served as a result of the new offences relating to pornography in the Crime and Policing Act 2026.

The Department has assessed the potential custodial impact of the new pornography offences, using existing comparable offences to estimate likely prosecution volumes and sentencing outcomes. This impact has been published in the Impact Assessment