Radicalism: Finance

(asked on 4th June 2019) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make an assessment of the implications for his policies of the May 2019 Royal United Services Institute report into international financing of UK right-wing extremist organisations entitled Fundraising for Right-Wing Extremist Movements: How They Raise Funds and How to Counter It.


Answered by
Ben Wallace Portrait
Ben Wallace
This question was answered on 14th June 2019

The UK has a strong reputation for tackling terrorist financing, using a range of disruptive tools and capabilities to prevent the movement of terrorist finance into and out of the UK. The Joint Money Laundering Intelligence Task Force brings together the financial sector with government to better detect and disrupt terrorist funding.

The 2017 Criminal Finance Act also strengthened law enforcements ability to identify, investigate and disrupt terrorist finance activity and work effectively with private sector partners.

The Government remains committed to tackling Right-Wing Extremism and extremist fundraising. We continue to consider all emerging evidence and analysis of financing for extremist causes, including that of the Extremism Analysis Unit.

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