Mr. Raymond Byrne:

The UK has legislated for voyeurism for quite a long time, and that is the basis on which the offence mentioned was dealt with. In our proposals we certainly thought an upskirting offence should be legislated for here, but not as a sexual offence, as Professor O'Connell mentioned. We certainly think there is a gap in the law here and this needs to be clarified.

In terms of reporting generally, the ordinary rules about people under age making a report on the criminal law side are that they must be accompanied by somebody to the station, but in general terms education is very important, and this came out of all the consultations we had with a number of groups, including the young children to whom we reported. Reform of the criminal law is important and significant, but so is educating parents interacting with teenagers on having to take a responsible attitude, but without stating a child is grounded from social media, which can be worse than being grounded.

Another part of the report we really want to emphasise is the idea of taking away the mobile phone and how we, as parents, need to educate ourselves about our responsible attitude.

Our focus on gambling was on a particular group of harmful communications but I am aware that the gambling control Bill which has been around as a draft Bill for a number of years deals with the question of vulnerable adults and children. The enactment of that legislation would be very welcome.