Radicalism: Young People

(asked on 13th January 2023) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to introduce a national strategy on incel culture to tackle the radicalisation of young people.


Answered by
Tom Tugendhat Portrait
Tom Tugendhat
Minister of State (Home Office) (Security)
This question was answered on 20th January 2023

Prevent aims to protect people from radicalisation and provides appropriate support to people regardless of ideology. This can include individuals who have shown an interest in incel narratives. People who are referred to Prevent for incel-related concerns will receive tailored support just as they would for any other ideological issue.

Prevent is threat agnostic and is designed to tackle radicalisation across all ideologies, and so staff resource and budget are not specifically allocated against any particular type of ideology or threat.

Statistics related to individuals referred to and supported through the Prevent programme between April 2021 to March 2022 are due to be published on Thursday 26th January 2023. For the first time these statistics will include a separate category for Incel related referrals. The statistics will be available at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/announcements/individuals-referred-to-and-supported-through-the-prevent-programme-april-2021-to-march-2022

Prevent continues to monitor emerging radicalisation trends and ideologies that may pose a threat, and establishing whether or not they pose a terrorism risk.

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