Asked by: Steve Barclay (Conservative - North East Cambridgeshire)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to paragraph 4.2 of the report of the Prime Minister's Task Force on Tackling Radicalisation and Extremism, published in December 2013, in how many areas of the country delivery of Prevent has been made a legal requirement.
Answered by James Brokenshire
The report from the Prime Minister’s Task Force on Tackling Radicalisation and Extremism committed the Government to ‘make delivery of Prevent a legal requirement in those areas of the country where extremism is of particular concern’. Chapter 1 of Part 5 of the Counter-Terrorism and Security Bill places a duty on specified authorities to have due regard to the need to prevent people from being drawn into terrorism. These proposals will make the delivery of Prevent a legal requirement across England, Scotland, and Wales.
Asked by: Steve Barclay (Conservative - North East Cambridgeshire)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many British nationals were subject to (a) regulatory fines, (b) civil penalties or (c) criminal penalties because of their involvement with the proceeds of crime arising from international crude oil theft in each year for which records are available.
Answered by Karen Bradley
The Home Office does not hold this information. Involvement with the proceeds of crime arising from crude oil theft is not a separately identifiable offence. Furthermore, The Home Office only collects statistics on crimes committed in
England and Wales, and not on international crime.
Asked by: Steve Barclay (Conservative - North East Cambridgeshire)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which trustees or directors of organisations subject to suspicious activity reports who have subsequently become trustees or directors of other organisations have received public funds in the last five years.
Answered by Karen Bradley
The requirement to submit suspicious activity reports related to money laundering is set out in the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (POCA). The information in the suspicious activity reports provided to the NCA is used for intelligence
or investigative purposes. The contents of the reports are not disclosed, in order to prevent prejudicing investigations which may be taking place.
Asked by: Steve Barclay (Conservative - North East Cambridgeshire)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to paragraph 2.3 of the report of the Prime Minister's Task Force on Tackling Radicalisation and Extremism, published in December 2013, which organisations have received support and advice to exclude extremists; and what funding for that purpose each such organisation has received.
Answered by James Brokenshire
The Home Office works alongside local partners and organisations in a range of sectors to challenge and disrupt extremism. There are Prevent programmes in place in all key sectors, including, local government, health, education,
prisons, youth justice, immigration and charities.
We do not comment on the funding arrangements for individual organisations.
Asked by: Steve Barclay (Conservative - North East Cambridgeshire)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what amount was spent by all government Departments on each type of activity related to tackling extremism in each of the last three years for which figures are available.
Answered by James Brokenshire
Tackling extremism is a priority for the Government, which is why we expanded the Prevent Strategy in 2010 to tackle non-violent, as well as violent, extremism.
In addition, the Home Secretary has asked the Home Office to prepare a new Extremism Strategy that goes further and addresses extremism in all its forms, working with Departments and Agencies across Government.
The Cabinet Secretary has not commissioned a formal review into cross-government expenditure on tackling extremism. However, normal procedures apply to tracking spending across government.
We have allocated £40 million for Prevent spending in 2014 / 15 which includes work on countering extremism where it creates an environment conducive to terrorism. This is in addition to the work already undertaken by DCLG on
community cohesion and integration that challenges all forms of extremism including non violent extremism. The Extremism Task Force has played a key role and, as part of the additional £130 million announced by the Prime Minister in
November 2014 to strengthen the UK’s capability to combat the increased threat of terrorism, Prevent will receive further funding.
Asked by: Steve Barclay (Conservative - North East Cambridgeshire)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the terms of reference were of the review commissioned by the Cabinet Secretary of cross-government expenditure on tackling extremism.
Answered by James Brokenshire
Tackling extremism is a priority for the Government, which is why we expanded the Prevent Strategy in 2010 to tackle non-violent, as well as violent, extremism.
In addition, the Home Secretary has asked the Home Office to prepare a new Extremism Strategy that goes further and addresses extremism in all its forms, working with Departments and Agencies across Government.
The Cabinet Secretary has not commissioned a formal review into cross-government expenditure on tackling extremism. However, normal procedures apply to tracking spending across government.
We have allocated £40 million for Prevent spending in 2014 / 15 which includes work on countering extremism where it creates an environment conducive to terrorism. This is in addition to the work already undertaken by DCLG on
community cohesion and integration that challenges all forms of extremism including non violent extremism. The Extremism Task Force has played a key role and, as part of the additional £130 million announced by the Prime Minister in
November 2014 to strengthen the UK’s capability to combat the increased threat of terrorism, Prevent will receive further funding.
Asked by: Steve Barclay (Conservative - North East Cambridgeshire)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of cross-government expenditure on tackling extremism was spent (a) domestically and (b) internationally in each of the last three years for which figures are available.
Answered by James Brokenshire
Tackling extremism is a priority for the Government, which is why we expanded the Prevent Strategy in 2010 to tackle non-violent, as well as violent, extremism.
In addition, the Home Secretary has asked the Home Office to prepare a new Extremism Strategy that goes further and addresses extremism in all its forms, working with Departments and Agencies across Government.
The Cabinet Secretary has not commissioned a formal review into cross-government expenditure on tackling extremism. However, normal procedures apply to tracking spending across government.
We have allocated £40 million for Prevent spending in 2014 / 15 which includes work on countering extremism where it creates an environment conducive to terrorism. This is in addition to the work already undertaken by DCLG on
community cohesion and integration that challenges all forms of extremism including non violent extremism. The Extremism Task Force has played a key role and, as part of the additional £130 million announced by the Prime Minister in
November 2014 to strengthen the UK’s capability to combat the increased threat of terrorism, Prevent will receive further funding.
Asked by: Steve Barclay (Conservative - North East Cambridgeshire)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what amount was spent by each Department on tackling extremism in each of the last three years for which figures are available.
Answered by James Brokenshire
Tackling extremism is a priority for the Government, which is why we expanded the Prevent Strategy in 2010 to tackle non-violent, as well as violent, extremism.
In addition, the Home Secretary has asked the Home Office to prepare a new Extremism Strategy that goes further and addresses extremism in all its forms, working with Departments and Agencies across Government.
The Cabinet Secretary has not commissioned a formal review into cross-government expenditure on tackling extremism. However, normal procedures apply to tracking spending across government.
We have allocated £40 million for Prevent spending in 2014 / 15 which includes work on countering extremism where it creates an environment conducive to terrorism. This is in addition to the work already undertaken by DCLG on
community cohesion and integration that challenges all forms of extremism including non violent extremism. The Extremism Task Force has played a key role and, as part of the additional £130 million announced by the Prime Minister in
November 2014 to strengthen the UK’s capability to combat the increased threat of terrorism, Prevent will receive further funding.
Asked by: Steve Barclay (Conservative - North East Cambridgeshire)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will publish, either redacted or in full, the review commissioned by the Cabinet Secretary of cross-government expenditure on tackling extremism.
Answered by James Brokenshire
Tackling extremism is a priority for the Government, which is why we expanded the Prevent Strategy in 2010 to tackle non-violent, as well as violent, extremism.
In addition, the Home Secretary has asked the Home Office to prepare a new Extremism Strategy that goes further and addresses extremism in all its forms, working with Departments and Agencies across Government.
The Cabinet Secretary has not commissioned a formal review into cross-government expenditure on tackling extremism. However, normal procedures apply to tracking spending across government.
We have allocated £40 million for Prevent spending in 2014 / 15 which includes work on countering extremism where it creates an environment conducive to terrorism. This is in addition to the work already undertaken by DCLG on
community cohesion and integration that challenges all forms of extremism including non violent extremism. The Extremism Task Force has played a key role and, as part of the additional £130 million announced by the Prime Minister in
November 2014 to strengthen the UK’s capability to combat the increased threat of terrorism, Prevent will receive further funding.
Asked by: Steve Barclay (Conservative - North East Cambridgeshire)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the fifth bullet point of paragraph 301 of the Report of the Task Force on Tackling Radicalisation and Extremism, published in December 2013, how many people have been excluded since that recommendation was made.
Answered by James Brokenshire
In total the Government has excluded 44 people from the UK since December 2013.