Written Question
Thursday 8th April 2021
Asked by:
Lord Strasburger (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)
Question
to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the written evidence by the Paymaster General to the Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy, published on 3 March, which states that “since 2016 £100m of funding has focussed on building collective resilience to Russian disinformation across Europe and the Eastern Neighbourhood Region”, on what that money was spent; and what is the equivalent figure for funding resilience against Russian disinformation targeted at the UK.
Answered by Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park
The CDMD programme contributes to HMG's Russia Strategy and UK national security by supporting projects which expose and build resilience to disinformation operations associated with Russia across Europe and the Eastern Neighbourhood. The types of support given varies from mentoring with UK media organisations; consultancy on programming; funded co-productions and support for regional Russian language media initiatives. Addressing the challenge of disinformation is a whole of Government effort and draws on resources from a number of Departments with costs met through their respective budgets.
Written Question
Tuesday 22nd September 2020
Asked by:
Lord Strasburger (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)
Question
to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what has delayed the publication of the inquiry into the leaking of confidential messages from Lord Darroch of Kew when he was UK Ambassador to the United States.
Answered by Baroness Sugg
The Metropolitan Police Service investigation is still ongoing. This is a complex, active criminal investigation and we have no information as to when it may conclude.
Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 20 Nov 2013
Project Tempora
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To ask Her Majesty’s Government which Minister first authorised GCHQ’s Project Tempora; when that happened; and why they did not disclose the existence of Project Tempora to the Joint Committee on the Draft Communications Data Bill...."Lord Strasburger - View Speech
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 20 Nov 2013
Project Tempora
"I thank my noble friend for the Answer that she was required to give. In a democracy, wholesale untargeted state intrusion into the private lives of all the people, such as Project Tempora, is unacceptable unless it has the informed consent of the people via their Parliament. However, Parliament has …..."Lord Strasburger - View Speech
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 30 Jul 2013
Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000: External Communications
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To ask Her Majesty’s Government what guidelines Secretaries of State adopt in deciding whether electronic communications sent from the United Kingdom to a United Kingdom addressee but routed outside the United Kingdom fall within the definition of “external communications” in Section 20 of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000...."Lord Strasburger - View Speech
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 30 Jul 2013
Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000: External Communications
"I thank my noble friend the Minister for her reply. We now know that GCHQ is routinely hoovering up and storing prodigious quantities of the internet communications of millions of innocent people, turning us all from citizens into suspects. As far as I am aware, Parliament has not sanctioned this …..."Lord Strasburger - View Speech
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