Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the report by the Law Commission, Modernising Communications Offences, published in July 2021, which recommendations in that report he plans to accept.

The Law Commission’s Report – Modernising Communications Offences – was sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.

Recommendations on new offences that fall to the MoJ are being carefully considered. We will set out our position on these matters in due course.