Thank you, Presiding Officer. In this debate, I've agreed to give time to Peter Fox, Jayne Bryant and Heledd Fychan to contribute to this debate today.

It's a worrying fact that the scale and extent of child sexual abuse online has been steadily increasing. Research by the NSPCC shows a tenfold increase in online sexual abuse offences recorded by police in England and Wales over the last decade. There are now nearly as many crimes being recorded in a month as there were in a year 10 years ago. There is no doubt that technology is advancing at a tremendous rate. And the data shows that grooming is increasingly going up and up across platforms across England and also Wales, recording 70 different apps and games involved in grooming crimes in the last 12 months alone. Multiple social media sites were often used in the same offence. Girls are being disproportionately affected, with research revealing that 80 per cent of the victims in online grooming crimes are in fact girls.

The sheer scale and increase in online sexual abuse facing our children is fundamental and is indeed a contravention of their rights under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, particularly articles 19 and 39, which are concerned with freedom from and recovery from violence.