Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to tackle online jihadi terrorist propaganda as a means of radicalisation.

This Government has been clear there should be no safe space online for terrorists and their supporters to radicalise, recruit, incite, or inspire. The UK has been at the forefront of the online battle against terrorist and extremist material.

We are working closely with industry, including through the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism, to encourage them to develop innovative solutions to tackle online radicalisation.

The dedicated police Counter Terrorism Internet Referral Unit (CTIRU) refers content that they assess as contravening UK terrorism legislation to industry and have secured the removal of over 290,000 pieces of terrorist-related material, including propaganda, since its inception in February 2010.

RICU work with a range of civil society groups to counter extremist and terrorist ideologies and to equip people in communities with the ability to reject those narratives.

We also want to address misuse of the internet by individuals: for that reason the Home Secretary announced at the Conservative Party Conference recently that the government will seek to change the law, so that people who repeatedly view terrorist content online could face up to fifteen years behind bars.