Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether her Department received representations relating to the proposed National Centre for Information Defence from the Campaign for Countering Digital Hate; and what role the National Centre will play in relation to domestic sources of misinformation and disinformation.

The Government is not aware of any such representations directed at the Office of the Prime Minister and Cabinet.

The Prime Minister has announced work to establish the National Centre for Information Defence to transform the UK’s capabilities for detecting, attributing and disrupting information attacks from foreign adversaries to support and defend our democracy and national security. We will update Parliament on its full remit and activity in due course.