It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Hollobone. Like other hon. Members, I will start by thanking my hon. Friend the Member for Folkestone and Hythe (Damian Collins) for securing this really important debate. Thriving independent journalism is one of the cornerstones of democracy but, as such, journalists are a common target for those who want to disrupt, disturb and devalue it. Reporters across the world are being intimidated, arrested or even killed, but now more than ever we need journalists to speak truth to power, to counter misinformation and to highlight wrongdoing. The UK is, as ever, a vocal champion of media freedom and of the journalists who do this important work. On 10 March, with our partners in the Media Freedom Coalition, we issued a statement condemning the brutal crackdown on independent media in Russia and calling on Russia to respect journalists' rights. We are giving the BBC World Service more than £4 million in emergency funding for its Ukrainian and Russian language services. In Afghanistan, we are concerned about the increasing restrictions on freedom of expression, including detentions and threats against journalists, human rights defenders and civil society activists. Since 2019, we co-founded the Media Freedom Coalition with Canada to speak out against attacks on media freedom and hold to account those who harm journalists. We have contributed £3 million over the past three years to the global media defence fund set up by UNESCO, which has supported more than 3,000 journalists, 490 lawyers and over 120 civil society organisations. The UK has given more than £500 million in the past five years to support independent journalism and the free flow of information across the world. We will be supporting the BBC World Service with more than £90 million per year over the next three years so that it can continue this work. To have any influence abroad, we also need to set an example at home. Since launching our national action plan for the safety of journalists over a year ago, the UK has risen nine places in the global press freedom index, to number 24 out of 180 countries. The new Online Safety Bill will create new protections for news publishers and journalistic content when shared online on other platforms. We are considering reforms to tackle SLAPPs that pose challenges to free speech and our legal system.