Asked by: Liam Byrne (Labour - Birmingham, Hodge Hill)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will publish the (a) roles and (b) responsibilities of his Department for (a) Prevent and (b) counter-extremism strategies.
Answered by Ben Wallace
Our updated and strengthened CONTEST strategy comprises Prevent, Pursue, Protect and Prepare work strands, each reducing an element of the risk from terrorism (intent, capability, vulnerability and impact), and collectively providing a balanced and comprehensive end to end response to the threat we face.
Prevent safeguards and supports people vulnerable to radicalisation, to stop them from becoming terrorists or supporting terrorism. Our 2015 Counter-Extremism Strategy tackles the non-terrorist harms that ideologically driven extremism causes in communities. The Home Office has lead responsibility for delivering both strategies and coordinating work across government.
Asked by: Liam Byrne (Labour - Birmingham, Hodge Hill)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the budgets are for Prevent contractors in (a) 2018 and (b) 2019.
Answered by Ben Wallace
We do not provide detailed information about the funding allocation of local Prevent activity.
Asked by: Liam Byrne (Labour - Birmingham, Hodge Hill)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will publish the list of contractors for the Prevent programme in receipt of contracted payments in each of the last five years for which information is available.
Answered by Ben Wallace
As per the Government’s transparency and accountability policy all expenditure (individual invoices, grant payments, expense payments or other such transactions) is reported and published on the GOV.UK website. The minimum requirement from 2010‐11 for central government entities is to publish transactions over £25,000.
Asked by: Liam Byrne (Labour - Birmingham, Hodge Hill)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what criteria his Department used for the selection of Prevent contractors in 2017-18.
Answered by Ben Wallace
In delivery of the Prevent programme, resources are focused in those locations where the threat from terrorism and radicalisation is highest. We support these communities to develop bespoke projects, best suited to tackle the threat from radicalisation, based on our collective analysis of the local threat picture in priority areas.
Asked by: Liam Byrne (Labour - Birmingham, Hodge Hill)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which organisations have been awarded contracts by his Department for the implementation of (a) Prevent and (b) other counter-extremism strategies in this fiscal year.
Answered by Ben Wallace
As per the Government’s transparency and accountability policy all expenditure (individual invoices, grant payments, expense payments or other such transactions) is reported and published on the GOV.UK website. The minimum requirement from 2010‐11 for central government entities is to publish transactions over £25,000.