Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what criteria the Prevent programme uses to (a) identify and (b) define subcategories of Extreme Right-Wing Terrorism.

Prevent uses the definition of Extreme Right-Wing Terrorism as set out in

CONTEST 2023. This describes those involved in Extreme Right-Wing activity who use violence in furtherance of their ideology. These ideologies can be broadly characterised as Cultural Nationalism, White Nationalism and White Supremacism. Individuals and groups may subscribe to ideological trends and ideas from more than one category.

When assessing referrals to Prevent, specialist police officers and staff determine

whether there are reasonable grounds to suspect that a person is at risk of radicalisation. According to the Counter-Terrorism and Security Act 2015 S36(3) “A chief officer of police may refer an individual to a panel only if there are reasonable grounds to believe that the individual is vulnerable to being drawn into terrorism”

The definition used by Prevent is available at the following link: Microsoft Word - English Standard_CONTEST 2023 (publishing.service.gov.uk)