Speeches by Davies-Jones.

“I would be delighted to meet the hon. Gentleman and his constituents to discuss the case.”

“I welcome that intervention. As I will explain, it is difficult for any child when a parent is taken away and is unable to be with them. As a parent, I find it really difficult to have to be away from my child for four days a week. I am sure that the hon. Member understands that the impact is in some regard immeasurabl…”

“I wholly concur with the right hon. Member’s comments. It is important that we talk about the issue more and try to remove some of the stigma, draw back the curtain and show it to the public. It is welcome that we are having this debate to do just that. In July, the Ministry of Justice produced the first official stati…”

“I thank my friend, the right hon. Member for Basildon and Billericay (Mr Holden), for securing this important debate. He eloquently outlined why we cannot overestimate the impact of parental imprisonment on children and their families. He reeled off a lot of stats and figures, but then powerfully backed them up with th…”

“This Second Reading debate on the Bill sponsored by my hon. Friend the Member for Spen Valley (Kim Leadbeater) provides the House and the country with an opportunity to discuss this complex and sensitive issue. I make it clear that I stand at the Dispatch Box today not as the MP for Pontypridd representing the views of…”

“It is illegal. We need to be clear here that non-consensual intimate imagery that is uploaded is illegal. Gaps currently exist around deepfake creation, which we are legislating for in this Session. Part of the problem is that we have registered it now as priority content, over which Ofcom will have to do their codes o…”

“We have committed to making an offence of creating a deepfake, making that illegal, and we will be legislating for that in this Session. There are already a number of offences in the realm of this. In terms of what is illegal, there are a number of offences on voyeurism, threat to share, sharing and so on. There are al…”

“Just that I totally agree.”

“It is about working with the judiciary to ensure that they are operating within the sentencing guidelines they currently have. We need to respect that the judiciary are independent and that they are following the guidelines they have been given. The Sentencing Council and we, as the Department, are looking at this and …”

“These images should not be there. That is very clear. Yes.”

“Thank you for your question, David. Apologies that I could not make the earlier session; I had to be in the Chamber on the Front Bench. I thank the Committee for all the work they are doing on this vital area. On your point, we are aware of cases where this has happened. It is a difficult area; the courts do have the p…”

“Yes, under the range of powers that Ofcom has to enforce the Act.”

“They don’t have to wait.”

“Now.”

“indicated assent.”

“The Ofcom guide implementation is next year.”

“Or the threat to create UK law.”

“Yes.”

“I made some previous comments around the courts managing to obtain the devices and getting the content removed. The Sentencing Council is looking at this to see whether the guidance needs to be clearer. It is currently within the courts’ powers to take this. They can do it, and we are—well, the Sentencing Council is—lo…”

“I want to make a quick point on that as well—a political point, if I may, around leadership. We no longer, thankfully, have a Home Secretary who makes spiking jokes or a Prime Minister who makes sexist comments. We have a Home Secretary and a Prime Minister who have made tackling violence against women and girls a poli…”