Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the National Security Bill on press freedom.

The Government has always taken a strong leadership role in the fight for global media freedom and the protection of the important values we hold dear, such as freedom of expression.

The National Security Bill will protect our freedoms and democracy and keep us safe by making the UK a harder target for states to conduct hostile activity in or against.

The Bill includes appropriate safeguards to ensures that legitimate activity is not inhibited.