Speeches by Anderson.

“Can I ask you about the success of the strategy? What was the reaction by China on the publication of the strategy? Since then, how would you measure its success? Is it possible to say whether it has been successful or not?”

“Do you think it has helped businesses and the German public to understand that balance between the opportunities and the challenges?”

“Can I ask one? To put together some of those things, we heard in the Moldovan evidence—we have also seen this in other countries—about the increased activity in foreign interference, potentially, and threats between elections. We have covered this a little bit, but what would it take to increase your remit to be able t…”

“You mentioned the Defending Democracy Taskforce, and there is the Joint Election Security and Preparedness Unit. When the Minister was here last week to talk to us about this, he talked about the ways in which various structures across Government look at disinformation. You have talked about your remit really being aro…”

“So social media platforms could say, “This is fake” at the bottom of a post and track it. They could say that something was fake even if it was very hard to find out internationally where it came from.”

“My question follows from that. I want to go a little more into where those deepfake images—the intimate sexual images that are being talked about a lot at the moment—come from. We have seen their use in other countries around and between elections. We fear that there will be more of that, particularly with politicians …”

“Can I ask one? To put together some of those things, we heard in the Moldovan evidence—we have also seen this in other countries—about the increased activity in foreign interference, potentially, and threats between elections. We have covered this a little bit, but what would it take to increase your remit to be able t…”

“You mentioned the Defending Democracy Taskforce, and there is the Joint Election Security and Preparedness Unit. When the Minister was here last week to talk to us about this, he talked about the ways in which various structures across Government look at disinformation. You have talked about your remit really being aro…”

“My question follows from that. I want to go a little more into where those deepfake images—the intimate sexual images that are being talked about a lot at the moment—come from. We have seen their use in other countries around and between elections. We fear that there will be more of that, particularly with politicians …”

“So social media platforms could say, “This is fake” at the bottom of a post and track it. They could say that something was fake even if it was very hard to find out internationally where it came from.”

“Can I ask one? To put together some of those things, we heard in the Moldovan evidence—we have also seen this in other countries—about the increased activity in foreign interference, potentially, and threats between elections. We have covered this a little bit, but what would it take to increase your remit to be able t…”

“You mentioned the Defending Democracy Taskforce, and there is the Joint Election Security and Preparedness Unit. When the Minister was here last week to talk to us about this, he talked about the ways in which various structures across Government look at disinformation. You have talked about your remit really being aro…”

“So social media platforms could say, “This is fake” at the bottom of a post and track it. They could say that something was fake even if it was very hard to find out internationally where it came from.”

“My question follows from that. I want to go a little more into where those deepfake images—the intimate sexual images that are being talked about a lot at the moment—come from. We have seen their use in other countries around and between elections. We fear that there will be more of that, particularly with politicians …”

“Commuter services are extensively disrupted in Putney by the six-year closure of Hammersmith bridge. I will be holding a bus crisis taskforce again tomorrow to look at the impact that the closure of the bridge is having not just on bus services, but on active travel and commuting through Putney. Will the Secretary of S…”

“I welcome the decisive leadership of the Defence Secretary and the Prime Minister in supporting Ukraine. When the Foreign Affairs Committee met the Ukrainian Government, it highlighted the necessity of a strong sanctions regime that is joined up internationally. The actions taken today show just that: a sanctions regim…”

“I absolutely understand that you cannot say, “These people are in post here,” and what they are doing, but can you give any more reassurance, or is there a way of writing to me afterwards, about the numbers? We do not want to find out, in a year’s time, that the numbers have actually gone down in different units that y…”

“Following on from there: I have read your response to our inquiry on that, and about the cross-HMG structures. It has a whole section on that, which was very good to see because there are a lot of comments from others who are looking at the Government’s response on disinformation and saying that it is not joined up eno…”

“May I ask a question that joins up a couple of your answers during this session? It comes back to funding. We have seen the role of civil society in investigating and unearthing disinformation in the western Balkans, and we know that is across the world, countering that public information. You have twice mentioned ODA …”

“As a follow-up to that, is there a Minister in each of those Departments whose job is identified, and do they all sit on the Defending Democracy Taskforce? Where do they all come together? Is there one meeting of all the Ministers who are the ambassadors within each Department?”