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Tech-enabled violence against women and girls represents a rapidly evolving and increasing threat.

Conclusion
Tech–enabled violence against women and girls refers to the use of technology to perpetrate violence, harassment, or abuse. Crimes include online harassment; image–based abuse (including the sharing of intimate imagery of perpetrator to victim, without the victim’s consent); revenge porn (the sharing of intimate images of the victim by the perpetrator, sometimes referred to as NCII (non–consensual intimate imagery)) and many more. Statistics show that tech–enabled VAWG is a rapidly evolving threat. For example, in 2015, the revenge porn helpline received 521 cases compared with 22,000 in 2024.73 Written evidence submitted by Miss Amy Moir highlighted Ofsted’s ‘Review into sexual abuse in schools and colleges’ which found that nearly 90% of girls, and nearly 50% of boys said that being sent explicit pictures of things they didn’t want to see happens a lot or sometimes to them or their peers.74
Government Response

A response document is linked to this report, dated 18 September 2025. Response attribution to this conclusion has not been verified. Read the response document.

Addressee Bodies
HM Treasury
Timeline
Recommendation age 1.3 yr
Report published 16 May 2025