Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the oral contribution by the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs in response to the question from the hon. Member for Bicester and Woodstock on 28 October 2024, Official Report, column 550, what her planned timeline is for (a) completing and (b) publishing the state threats review.

The government is committed to responding to state threat activity in all its forms and we regularly review the tools and powers available to us.

That is why the Home Secretary commissioned the Independent Reviewer of Terrorism and State Threats Legislation, Jonathan Hall KC, to undertake a review to identify whether there are parts of our existing terrorism legislation which could usefully be emulated in the state threats context.

Following the publication of Mr Hall’s report on 19 May 2025, the Home Secretary committed to taking forward Mr Hall’s recommendations, including the creation of a new State Threats Proscription-like Tool. We will bring forward legislation as soon as Parliamentary time allows