Oral evidence transcripts

Inquiry Hate crime and its violent consequences inquiry

Witnesses Kim Leadbeater, Ambassador, The Jo Cox Foundation, Catherine Anderson, Chief Executive Officer, The Jo Cox Foundation, Jane Ramsey, Independent Member, and Lord Evans of Weardale KCB, Chair, Committee on Standards in Public Life

Inquiry Hate crime and its violent consequences inquiry

Witnesses Neil Potts, Public Policy Director, Facebook, Katy Minshall, Head of UK Government, Public Policy & Philanthropy, Twitter, Marco Pancini, Director of Public Policy, YouTube

Inquiry Hate crime and its violent consequences inquiry

Witnesses Chloe Colliver, Project Manager, Jacob Davey, Research Manager, Institute for Strategic Dialogue, Alex Krasodomski-Jones, Researcher, Centre for the Analysis of Social Media, Demos

Inquiry Hate crime and its violent consequences inquiry

Witnesses Paul Clarkson, Managing Editor, The Sun, Lloyd Embley, Group Editor-in-Chief, Trinity Mirror, Gary Jones, Editor-in-Chief, Daily and Sunday Express, Peter Wright, Editor Emeritus, Associated Newspapers; Ian Brunskill, Assistant Editor, The Times, Ian MacGregor, Editor Emeritus, Telegraph Media Group and President, Society of Editors, Ted Young, Editor, Metro; Neil Benson, Chair, Editors’ Code Committee, Ian Murray, Executive Director, Society of Editors

Inquiry Hate crime and its violent consequences inquiry

Witnesses William McCants, Global Policy Lead for Counterterrorism, YouTube, Google

Inquiry Hate crime and its violent consequences inquiry

Witnesses Alison Saunders CB, Director of Public Prosecutions, Crown Prosecution Service

Inquiry Hate crime and its violent consequences inquiry

Witnesses The Rt Hon. the Baroness Warsi, Professor Chris Frost, Chair of the Ethics Council, National Union of Journalists; Nazir Afzal OBE, Member of the Complaints Committee, Anne Lapping, Board Member, Rt Hon Sir Alan Moses, Chairman, Independent Press Standards Organisation; Jonathan Heawood, Chief Executive Officer, IMPRESS

Inquiry Hate crime and its violent consequences inquiry

Witnesses Professor Neil Chakraborti, Director of the Centre for Hate Studies, University of Leicester, Sam Smethers, Chief Executive, The Fawcett Society, Dr Loretta Trickett, Centre for the Study and Reduction of Hate Crimes, Bias and Prejudice, Nottingham Trent University, Professor Mark Walters, Co-investigator of the Sussex Hate Crime Project, University of SussexDr Jelena Dzakula, Fellow, and Professor Damian Tambini, Research Director, Department of Media and Communications, London School of Economics and Political Science, Dr Martyn Frampton, Reader in Modern History at Queen Mary University of London and Co-Head of the Security and Extremism Unit at Policy Exchange, Dr Martin Moore, Director of the Centre for the Study of Media, Communication and Power, King’s College London

Inquiry Hate crime and its violent consequences inquiry

Witnesses Dr Nicklas Berild Lundblad, Vice President Public Policy, Europe, Middle East and Africa, Google, Simon Milner, Director, Public Policy, Facebook, Sinead McSweeney, VP Public Policy and Communications, Europe, Middle East and Africa, Twitter