Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 14 February 2025 to Question 23916 on Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: Legal Costs, whether her policy on naming organisations or groups as extremist affects her policy on not engaging with extremist organisations.

The community engagement principles were a policy launched by the previous administration – they provided a set of standards and guidance on how Government should consider which partners to engage with. Guidance was published in March 2024, but the principles were never implemented by the last government. The naming of extremist groups was also part of the Counter-Extremism policy by the previous administration. The responsibility for decisions around who departments engage with sits with those departments and the appropriate policy areas.