Found: accordingly obliges the Government to ensure individuals can exercise their fundamental rights such as freedom

Found: for example, is tackling disinformation head on through its education system. 44 Journalism Whilst freedom

Found: There is freedom of speech protection, which is separate and sits above the Ofcom rules.

Found: need to reduce dependence on Confucius Institutes, especially in secondary schools where breaches of freedom

Found: the National Portfolio funded by Arts Council England, should see a contract clause protecting freedom

Found: Chair: The English Law Commission also recommended that, if that was to be done, tailored freedom of

Found: Any freedom of speech risk could also be negated through an exemption being applied for any person

Found: great number of public protesters out on the streets bravely fighting against the restrictions on freedom

Found: We put a lot of things on the OfS over recent years, for example freedom of speech and the mental

Found: We put a lot of things on the OfS over recent years, for example freedom of speech and the mental

Found: Pamela San Martín: The problem of having a government-sponsored definition that will limit freedom

Found: Pamela San Martín: The problem of having a government-sponsored definition that will limit freedom

Found: Pamela San Martín: The problem of having a government-sponsored definition that will limit freedom

Found: That is where the challenge of freedom of speech kicks in, because advertising a good is a different

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, whether his Department has taken recent steps to help promote freedom of expression and peaceful assembly in West Papua, in the context of recent reports of political imprisonment in that region.

Answered by Anne-Marie Trevelyan - Minister of State (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)

The UK Government remains committed to upholding and defending human rights, freedom of speech and equality at home and oversees. We are aware of increased tensions in the Papua region and we continue to monitor developments closely. We have raised the issue of Papua with the Indonesian Embassy in London. Officials from the British Embassy in Jakarta visited Papua in March 2022 and met with officials, police, local business, human rights defenders, environmentalists and religious leaders. They also visited the region in February and July 2023.

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask His Majesty's Government when they plan to bring into force all the provisions of the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act of 2023, including the statutory tort contained in section 4, that have not yet come into effect.

Answered by Baroness Barran - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Education)

The remaining provisions of the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act 2023 will come into force in two phases. The main provisions of the Act, including the statutory tort contained in section 4, free speech duties on higher education providers, constituent institutions and students' unions, and the new complaints scheme will come into force on 1 August 2024.

The second phase involves provisions relating to new conditions of registration on providers and monitoring of overseas funding. These will come into force on 1 September 2025. This information was published by the Office for Students on 13 September 2023, see: https://www.officeforstudents.org.uk/advice-and-guidance/quality-and-standards/freedom-of-speech/changes-to-regulation/.

The department will lay the necessary secondary legislation to bring the Act’s provisions into force by those dates.

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will hold discussions with the Office for Students on ensuring that the forthcoming guidance for higher education providers on (a) securing free speech within the law and (b) publishing and maintaining a freedom of speech code of practice is published before 1 August 2024.

Answered by David Johnston - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Education)

The remaining provisions of the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act 2023 will come into force in two phases. The main provisions of the Act, introducing free speech duties on higher education providers, constituent institutions and students' unions, and the new complaints scheme, will come into force on 1 August 2024. The Office for Students (OfS) has already launched two consultations that will feed into new complaints scheme rules and guidance for students’ unions on the OfS’s approach to regulating them. These will be published before the 1 August 2024.

The second phase involves provisions relating to new conditions of registration on providers and monitoring of overseas funding. These will come into force on 1 September 2025.

The OfS expects to consult shortly on the proposed revisions to the regulatory framework, including on its approach to the recovery of costs, as well as on more detailed guidance on securing free speech within the law and on maintaining a free speech code of practice. The OfS consultations are not yet live, and the OfS will require time to run the consultation, analyse the results and publish a response before they can publish the guidance to which they relate. Precise timings on the publication of guidance are a matter for the OfS.

Question to the Department for Business and Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps she is taking to ensure that the (a) employment rights and (b) freedom of speech of people of faith are protected (i) in the workplace and (ii) during the recruitment process.

Answered by Kevin Hollinrake - Minister of State (Department for Business and Trade)

People of faith are protected by the existing legal framework. They have the same employment rights and protections as anyone else, including during the recruitment process. Where they feel those rights have not been respected, they can contact Acas or EASS (Equality Advisory and Support Service) for advice, and ultimately, seek redress through an employment tribunal.

In addition, the Equality Act 2010 provides protection from religious discrimination to anyone with a religious belief as well as to those who lack a religion or belief. The definition of a religion or belief in these provisions is deliberately broad and includes those religions widely recognised in the UK, as well as denominations or sects within a religion such as Catholics or Protestants within Christianity.

Found: subsection (3), the Secretary of State must have due regard to the public interest in balancing freedom

Found: subsection (3), the Secretary of State must have due regard to the public interest in balancing freedom

Found: subsection (3), the Secretary of State must have due regard to the public interest in balancing freedom

Found: subsection (3), the Secretary of State must have due regard to the public interest in balancing freedom

Found: subsection (3), the Secretary of State must have due regard to the public interest in balancing freedom

Found: of speech .

Found: Freedom of speech in the UK’s “culture war”. https://www.kcl.ac.uk/policy- institute/assets/freedom-of-speech-in-the-uks-culture-war.pdf

Found: of speech.

Found: Robin delivered a speech at the DfE Prevent in EducationConference on disinformation, blasphemy and freedom

Found: Science Innovation & Technology Intellectual Property Office 20/02/2024 Staff Costs PDTM Directorate Freedom

Found: The Committee asks how this Bill interacts with the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act 2023.