Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the religious or ideological belief was of each person convicted of terrorist-related offences in each of the last three years.

As a result of the Government’s unprecedented action to protect the public from extremists, we have seen a 75 per cent rise in terrorism-related prisoners over the last three years. That means we need to do more than ever before to confront and counter the threat, including the spread of all forms of poisonous ideology within prisons – and we are meeting that challenge. With thousands of prison staff now trained to deal with extremism, an enhanced intelligence capability and separation centres for the most subversive prisoners, we are well equipped to deal with this threat.

In the last three years (May 2015 – May 2018), a total of 142 people have been convicted of terrorist-related offences in the UK. 38 were convicted from May 2015, 54 were convicted in 2016, 46 were convicted in 2017, and so far in 2018 4 have been convicted. Convictions in such cases are on the basis of the offence committed and not on the religion observed by the offender.

Data concerning the religious or ideological beliefs of these offenders, if applicable, is set out in the tables below:

2015

2016

2017

2018