Porn probe on computers in Parliament

Nearly 300,000 “attempts to access websites categorised as pornography” were made from computers within Parliament in the last year, official records show.

The figure – which represents more than 800 per day – was released by Palace of Westminster IT chiefs in response to a freedom of information request.

It covers devices linked to the Parliamentary Network, including those used by MPs and 
peers, their staff and other employees.

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Officials have sought to play down the significance of the total, insisting it was inflated by pop-ups, auto-refresh and other web design features and did not reflect deliberate efforts to access sexual content.

They are also investigating the reason for wide variations between the monthly figures – with as many as 114,844 in November but just 15 in February.

The figures were obtained by the Huffington Post UK website.

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