Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of utilising artificial intelligence to reduce the livestream of child abuse online.

The Home Office is actively developing options to support more systematic and effective deployment of such technology to fully mitigate harms to children from producing and sharing such imagery. This includes actively considering requirements on device operating systems to implement controls to better protect child users of smartphones; with the option of device-level age assurance for adult users.