BLOCKING ACCESS TO CHILD PORNOGRAPHY

Early day motion 1564, tabled 21 July 2004 by Paul Burstow (Liberal Democrat). Signed by 55 members.

That this House congratulates British Telecom and Vodafone for taking measures to limit access to child pornography on their services; notes the success of the British Telecom Clean Feed system, which blocks up to 20,000 attempts a day to view websites featuring child pornography; further notes that such schemes are an important method of tackling child pornography and child abuse; calls upon the Home Office task force on child protection on the internet to work with other internet service providers to encourage them to introduce similar schemes; and calls on other telecommunications companies to follow Vodafone's lead in the mobile internet field.

Signatures by party: Labour 25, Liberal Democrat 16, Labour/Co-operative 5, Conservative 3, DUP 2, Scottish National Party 2, UUP 2.