Counter-terrorism

(asked on 6th March 2017) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many referrals have been made under the Prevent strategy since 2015, by (a) age, (b) gender, (c) location by region, (d) ethnicity, (e) type of referring authority and (f) type of extremism; and what proportion of the total number of those referrals have resulted in placement in the CHANNEL programme for each of those categories.


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Ben Wallace
This question was answered on 14th March 2017

Since 2012, over 1000 vulnerable people have received support through Channel. Around a quarter of cases receiving support are for far right extremism. The Home Office intends to publish further Prevent and Channel data in the near future.

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