Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office written question – answered at on 2 April 2024.
Robert Buckland
Chair, Northern Ireland Affairs Committee, Chair, Northern Ireland Affairs Committee
To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, what steps his Department is taking to improve cooperation with VIGINUM.
Nusrat Ghani
Minister of State (Minister for Europe)
The UK works closely with international partners to counter Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference (FIMI) by hostile actors, including bilaterally with France and its agencies. We regularly engage with Viginum at official working level and within the G7, including through the G7 Rapid Response Mechanism, which strengthens G7 coordination to identify and respond to foreign threats to democracies. We intend to build on cooperation with G7 members over the course of 2024 on countering FIMI and will therefore be looking to continue engaging France on information threats.
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