Terrorism

(asked on 11th October 2017) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have been (a) charged with, (b) prosecuted for and (c) convicted of wearing a uniform under section 13 of the Terrorism Act 2000 in each year since 2000.


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Ben Wallace
This question was answered on 20th October 2017

The Home Office publishes data on the number of persons charged, prosecuted and convicted, following an arrest for a terrorism-related offence, in the quarterly ‘Operation of police powers under the Terrorism Act 2000 and subsequent legislation’ statistical release. Data, broken down by the legislation under which an individual is charged/prosecuted/convicted, are available from 11 September 2001, when the data collection began.

The data can be found alongside the release in the accompanying data tables, which can be accessed here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/operation-of-police-powers-under-the-terrorism-act-2000

Data on charges of those arrested for terrorism-related offences can be found in table A.05a and data on convictions can be found in table A.08a; these data are supplied by the National Counter Terrorism Police Operations Centre.

Data on prosecutions of persons for terrorism-related offences can be found in table C.02, which contains data provided by the Crown Prosecutions Service Counter Terrorism Division (data available since July 2010).

The data are based on the principal offence rule, whereby when an individual is charged/convicted/prosecuted for more than one offence at a time, only the most serious offence is counted in the data.

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