Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Government's press release of 17 September 2015, entitled PM's Extremism Taskforce: tackling extremism in universities and colleges top of the agenda, if she will publish the list compiled by the Extremism Analysis Unit of events held on university campuses featuring hate speakers; and what criteria were used for including events on that list.
The Home Office has information on over 70 events held on university campuses in 2014 involving speakers who are considered by the Home Office to have previously expressed views contrary to fundamental British values, including democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty and mutual respect and tolerance of those with different faiths and beliefs’. This information has been collected to support the development of Prevent policy towards Higher Education institutions. We will not be publishing the full data set.