Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to speed up the process of removing Muslim extremists living in the UK.

We seek to deport or remove foreign nationals whose presence in the UK is contrary to the public interest, including those who hold extremist views. The Government takes very seriously the need to respond to the threat from all types of extremism.

In April a number of changes to the appeals and removals system introduced by the Immigration Act 2014 came into effect. These include the streamlining of the appeals process and a single power of removal to mitigate the abusive use of the judicial system by immigration offenders to obstruct their removal or deportation. These measures apply equally to foreign nationals whose character and conduct is unacceptable, including those engaged in extremism. Such individuals would be liable to removal and have any existing leave or status in the UK revoked. British nationals cannot be removed or deported from the UK.