Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department records an ideological breakdown of people in the Desistance and Disengagement Programme.

The Home Office does collect information relating to the ideology of participants of the Desistance and Disengagement programme. However, this information is considered to be protected information which we are unable publish as this constitutes personal data as defined in the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR).

The Desistance and Disengagement Programme is an important tool used to keep the public safe from people who have been involved in terrorist related activity.

Providing further granular detail around ideology could lead to the identification or presumed identification, of its participants which could have serious security implications and fundamentally undermine the effectiveness of the programme as a counter terrorism tool.