Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to page 11 of her Department’s paper Individuals referred to and supported through the Prevent Programme, April 2015 to March 2016, published on the 9th November 2017, if she will make an estimate of the level of referral to each later stage of the Prevent and Channel processes for individuals subject to (a) right-wing extremist concerns and (b) other extremist concerns.
This is contained within the published figures (see table below).
For those referred for right-wing extremist concerns: of the 759 individuals referred over the year, 189 were discussed at a Channel panel, and 99 went on to receive Channel support.
For those referred for other extremist concerns – which we have taken to mean Islamist and Other as detailed in the table below: of the 5,699 individuals referred, 883 were discussed at a Channel panel and 282 then went on to receive Channel support.
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Type of Concern |
| Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | Q4 |
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Prevent Referrals |
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Islamist |
| 1,152 | 919 | 1,466 | 1,460 |
| 4,997 |
Extreme Right Wing | 144 | 146 | 271 | 198 |
| 759 | |
Other |
| 147 | 127 | 248 | 180 |
| 702 |
Unspecified | 422 | 161 | 206 | 384 |
| 1,173 | |
Total |
| 1,865 | 1,353 | 2,191 | 2,222 |
| 7,631 |
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Discussed at Panel |
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Islamist |
| 160 | 109 | 265 | 285 |
| 819 |
Extreme Right Wing | 25 | 27 | 80 | 57 |
| 189 | |
Other |
| 8 | 10 | 24 | 22 |
| 64 |
Total |
| 193 | 146 | 369 | 364 |
| 1,072 |
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Received Channel Support |
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Islamist |
| 58 | 48 | 74 | 84 |
| 264 |
Extreme Right Wing | 14 | 15 | 43 | 27 |
| 99 | |
Other |
| 5 | - | 8 | 5 |
| 18 |
Total |
| 77 | 63 | 125 | 116 |
| 381 |