Parliament online porn requests ‘hit 24,000 following election’
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More than 24,000 attempts have been made to access pornographic websites in parliament since June’s general election, new figures reveal.
A total of 24,473 attempts to access the material from devices connected to parliament’s network were made up until October 2017 – totalling around 160 a day on average.
The data, released after a freedom of information request by the Press Association, showed attempts peaked at 9,467 in September.
However, parliamentary authorities say most of the attempts are not intentional.
The figure for the majority of 2017 is also a notable decrease on recent years, with 113,208 attempts blocked by parliament's filtering system in 2016 – down from 213,020 in 2015.
A Parliamentary spokesman said: "All pornographic websites are blocked by Parliament's computer network.
"The vast majority of 'attempts' to access them are not deliberate. The data shows 'requests' to access websites, not visits to them.
"There are 8,500 computers on the parliamentary network, which are used by MPs, peers, their staff and staff of both Houses."
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