Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions her Department has had with social media companies on the preservation and provision to law enforcement agencies of content depicting suspected criminal offences.

Home Office Ministers and senior officials regularly engage with key stakeholders, including social media companies, on a range of policy and operational issues.

It would not be appropriate to comment on the specifics of discussions with individual companies concerning the preservation or provision of content to law enforcement agencies, for reasons of operational sensitivity, national security and commercial sensitivity.