Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to prevent radicalisation in (a) Stoke-on-Trent and (b) Staffordshire.

The government aims to safeguard vulnerable individuals from radicalisation through the Prevent strategy. The Prevent Statutory Duty 2015 requires all local authorities to have due regard to the need to stop people becoming terrorists or supporting terrorism. Prevent funding is prioritised based on threat and risk. The Home Office does not currently disclose the geographical allocation of Prevent funding.