Steven Paterson – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Culture, Media and Sport

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Steven Paterson on 2016-03-02.

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether his Department has a communication’s strategy to tackle violent extremism.

Mr Edward Vaizey

The Counter-Extremism Strategy, published in October last year, set out government’s response to the threat posed by extremism. As part of that response, the Department is supporting the Home Office led communications strategy. This includes work with broadcasters and technology companies to counter extremist ideologies, and to disrupt those sharing extremist content in the media and online.