National Resilience Committee
25 June 2026
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National Resilience Committee House of Lords
00:04 - 02:21
Speaker 1
Good morning and thank you very much all three of you. We have Rhodri Davies on the online there, I think you can see him on the screen. Thank you all very much for your time in helping us with this inquiry today. I should remind you that it is a public session, it's being broadcast live. You will all receive a transcript within the next couple of days or so, so if there are any minor inaccuracies that you need to correct, please let us know then.
And if you think of anything afterwards that you wish you'd said, we're very happy to have supplementary evidence in writing if that feels right. We've obviously got a lot of questions to put to you, and when you're giving your first answer, it would be helpful if you could introduce yourself very briefly so we've got that on record as well. And I will kick off with the first question to all of you. It's a scene-setting question really. What challenges does the UK currently face concerning digital communication in terms of the fragmented information environment and the possibility of network disruption?
And in what ways can technology give rise to mis- and disinformation, such as through the use of AI as well? And although it's packing a bit too much probably into this question, for those of you for whom this is relevant, perhaps you could also incorporate into your answer whether you think that there would be a possible undesirable end to universal access to digital information if the shutting down of digital terrestrial television were to happen, as I gather is the current plan, which would disrupt access to information in an emergency. So that's quite a lot of scene-setting, and perhaps we could start with Mr. Davies on screen, and then we'll move to the other two.
02:21 - 02:45
Speaker 2
Thank you, good morning everyone, and thank you for the invitation. I'm sorry I'm not there with you in the room. There's a lot in that question. Let me just step through it in terms of the BBC. I think clearly in terms of the media ecology as we now see it, there are substantial risks in terms of misinformation and disinformation and the role of bad actors.
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