Question to the Home Office:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Williams of Trafford on 8 September (HL1606), where a communications service provider is not based in the UK but has UK citizens or foreign nationals working for it and residing in the UK, what is the justification for not prosecuting executives when their company fails to take action to remove terrorist or extremist content which would be an offence if committed by a UK based company and its officers.

This Government is actively considering whether to opt-in to the new Europol Regulation. We will inform Parliament of our decision in due course in the usual way.