Mr. Seamus Hempenstall:

The day after the riots, our working group had a meeting and the Hope and Courage Collective gave the expert presentation. Its representatives talked about meeting people where they are at and the idea of local, tailored communications about local issues, even from peers and peer groups or using different ways to communicate messages that make sense to people where they are. That is not going to fix what happened on 23 November. It is a slice of what Ms Chapman is talking about in terms of empowering people to participate fully in society, to believe things that are incorrect if they want but to be able to talk about it with other people and find ways to communicate about those issues.

Again to pick up on what she said, addressing the sectoral and societal issues that give rise to disinformation is necessary. As secretary to the group, the idea of co-ordinating and collaborating is not sexy or cool and does sound wishy-washy at times, but for this strategy it is vital because there are so many things going on across society to address disinformation. Let us consider the variety of people we have here. This strategy will hopefully bring those people together an ongoing, structured basis to address the issues we have been talking about.