Radicalism

(asked on 23rd March 2015) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to tackle extremism.


Answered by
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James Brokenshire
This question was answered on 26th March 2015

The Government takes extremism seriously and is committed to tackling it in all its forms. In 2011 the Home Secretary reformed the Prevent strategy to tackle the ideology behind the terrorist threat we face and made sure it tackled non-violent extremism as well as violent extremism.

This Government also set up the Extremism Task Force (ETF) in July 2013 in the wake of the murder of Drummer Lee Rigby to consider what more we could do to deal with extremism. The ETF has driven forward a number of actions. The Home Secretary has excluded more hate preachers than ever before, nearly 90 since 2010. We have removed 61,000 pieces of terrorist related material since December 2013. We have created a new online tool to make it easier for the public to report extremist content. We have worked with over 250 mosques, 50 faith groups and 70 community groups. We have trained over 150,000 frontline public sector workers to identify and support those at risk of radicalisation.

This week the Home Secretary outlined proposals for a new counter-extremism strategy to tackle the whole spectrum of extremism. The foundation of the strategy would is the proud promotion of British values.

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