Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) people and (b) children have been referred to the Channel anti-radicalisation programme since its inception; and how much that programme has cost to date.

Since Channel was rolled out nationally in 2012, over 2000 people have been referred to the programme, and hundreds have been offered support.

For national security reasons, we do not publically provide the breakdown of police counter-terrorism spend by individual projects, capabilities, work streams or police force areas.

We continue to monitor and evaluate the Channel programme to ensure that it is as effective as it can be and that good practice is shared across the country. Placing the programme on a statutory footing will enshrine this good practice
in legislation to secure local cooperation and delivery in all areas.