Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Prevent coordinator posts have been advertised in each of the last five years; and what the average number of applications received for those posts was.

The Home Office provides funding to ‘Prevent priority areas’ deemed to have a higher risk of radicalisation. Each priority area has a dedicated Prevent co-ordinator post funded by the Home Office and employed by the local authority. Local authorities in other areas may also fund their own Prevent posts. The Home Office does not hold detailed employment information on all of these posts.