EU: Child Abuse Images
Baroness Thornton: To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they will support Article 21 of the proposal for a European Union Directive on combating the sexual abuse, sexual exploitation of children and child pornography, regarding the removal of images of child abuse from websites hosted within member states and third countries.[HL4624]
The Minister of State, Ministry of Justice (Lord McNally): The UK supports blocking websites containing images of child sexual abuse. We hope to see increased amounts of blocking in other EU member states. We support the objective of Article 21 which requires member states to take down websites with images of child abuse hosted on their territory and for all member states to enable the blocking of access by interne users to such pages outside the EU. As you know, negotiations on the directive continue with the European Parliament, so the final content of the legislation has still to be determined.
Source: Hansard 6 December 2010: http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld201011/ldhansrd/text/101206w0001.htm#1012068000292 
