Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Department's press release entitled new tech partnership to stop the boats, published 6 August 2023, whether social media companies are providing funding for Online Capability Centre.

Officials and law enforcement work alongside social media companies in the OCC to identify harmful OIC content on their platforms and remove it as quickly as possible. Social media companies are not providing any funding for the centre. Funding for the Online Capability Centre is provided as part of Project Invigor. In December 2023, as part of the Prime Minister's Ten Point Plan, it was announced that the funding available for Project Invigor was to be doubled for the next two financial years (2023-24 and 2024-25) Officials and law enforcement will work alongside social media companies in the OCC and continue with engagement (similar to the Social Media Action Plan) to identify harmful OIC content on the companies platforms and work together to proactively remove it as quickly as possible.