Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Department: Home Office

Oral Answers to Questions

Jack Lopresti Excerpts
Monday 28th October 2019

(5 years ago)

Commons Chamber
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Priti Patel Portrait Priti Patel
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I would be delighted to look at that application directly with the Home Office. We also have 57 voluntary organisations that have been resourced by the Home Office to reach out to individuals who will not necessarily be able to access technology easily. But, as I say, I will be very happy to look at that individual case.

Jack Lopresti Portrait Jack Lopresti (Filton and Bradley Stoke) (Con)
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May I welcome the confirmation of additional funding for counter-terrorism in the spending review and ask my right hon. Friend what steps she is taking to counter terrorist content online?

Brandon Lewis Portrait Brandon Lewis
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My hon. Friend makes a very good point. We are determined and focused in making sure that we do everything we can to ensure that we keep all our citizens safe. He rightly highlights the threat to us all of the online environment and the work that we need to do with our agencies right across the board. Great work is being done not just by the National Crime Agency but by other agencies to ensure that we are continually working to make sure that this is a safe environment. However, we all have a part to play in that, and we will continue to be focused on it in terms of finance and of policy and legislation.