Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to Guardian article published on 26 December 2017, entitled Jo Johnson to tell universities to stop no-platforming speakers, which universities have removed books from university libraries due to the inclusion of trigger words.

In the speech which resulted in this article, my Rt hon. Friend the Minister of State for Universities, Science, Research and Innovation gave two distinct examples of threats to freedom of speech – the removal of ‘offensive’ material from libraries, and the drawing up of lists of ‘trigger words’. He did not state that books were being removed due to the inclusion of trigger words.