Radicalism
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people were referred to the Prevent programme by their ideological motivation in each year since 2014.
Answered by Dan Jarvis
The breakdown of statistical data on the individuals referred to the Prevent Programme by their associated type of concern since the financial year 2016/17 to 2022/23, can be found in Table 6 (Type of Concern of those referred, discussed at a Channel panel and adopted as a Channel case, 2016/17 to 2022/23) of the latest published statistics which are available under the Home Office’s latest counter-terrorism statistical series: Individuals referred to Prevent: to March 2023 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk). Data on the individuals referred to Prevent by the extended list of type of concern under the main 10 high level categories before the financial year 2016/17 is not available due to changes in the categories available in the Police Case Management (PCM) data recording system as outlined in the user guide.
We have also included a summary of this data below in Table 1.
Table 1: Number of individuals referred to the Prevent Programme by their type of concern each year since the financial year ending 2016
Type of concern | 2016/17 | 2017/18 | 2018/19 | 2019/20 | 2020/21 | 2021/22 | 2022/23 |
Extreme Right Wing | 968 | 1,387 | 1,402 | 1,404 | 1,229 | 1,309 | 1,310 |
Islamist | 3,706 | 3,462 | 1,421 | 1,510 | 1,077 | 1,027 | 781 |
Other | 725 | 1,160 | 803 | 219 | 107 | 100 | 112 |
Conflicted | 0 | 0 | 0 | 233 | 323 | 1,020 | 1,214 |
No specific extremism issue | 282 | 863 | 1,032 | 232 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
High CT risk but no ideology present | 0 | 0 | 0 | 70 | 41 | 5 | 5 |
Vulnerability present but no ideology or CT risk | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1,594 | 1,600 | 2,127 | 2,505 |
No risk, vulnerability or Ideology Present | 0 | 0 | 0 | 676 | 387 | 587 | 654 |
School massacre | 0 | 0 | 79 | 236 | 109 | 154 | 159 |
Incel | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 77 | 69 |
Unspecified | 412 | 446 | 1,000 | 113 | 39 | 0 | 8 |
Total | 6,093 | 7,318 | 5,737 | 6,287 | 4,915 | 6,406 | 6,817 |
Data on the number of referrals made between April 2023 - March 2024 will be released in the upcoming publication scheduled for 5th December 2024.
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