Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to safeguard vulnerable individuals from online radicalisation.

This Government has been clear there should be no safe space online for terrorists and their supporters to radicalise, recruit, incite, or inspire. We continue to work closely with industry to come up with new innovative ways for tackling terrorist use of the internet, as well as helping to provide targeted counter-narrative.

This included working with social media companies to set up the Global Internet Forum to counter-terrorism, launched by Google, Facebook, Twitter and Microsoft on 26 June 2017. This followed a meeting hosted by the Home Secretary on 30 March 2017 where the companies agreed to set up the forum

Anyone can contact local authority safeguarding teams or their local police using the 101 non-emergency number if they believe someone is being radicalised; referrals can also be made through any of the means below:

• Anti-Terrorism Hotline – 0800 789 321
• Department for Education Helpline (for concerns about radicalisation in schools or children’s services) – 020 7340 7264
• NSPCC Helpline – 0808 800 5000