Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the number of cyberflashing images that were reported to law enforcement in England and Wales in the last five years.

Official estimates on the number of cyberflashing images that were reported to law enforcement in England and Wales have not been made. However, a YouGov survey in 2017 estimated that around four in ten (41%) of young women (aged 18 to 36 years) had experience of having been sent an unsolicited obscene images of men.

This level of prevalence is why the Government is considering making unsolicited sending of obscene images, for example via wi-fi or Bluetooth, a specific criminal offence.