Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to her Written Statement of 12 July 2017, HCWS39, how many UK-based extremist organisations were identified by her Department's review as having received a significant proportion of their income from overseas; and if she will list those organisations.

The Government laid a Written Ministerial Statement in Parliament on Wednesday 12 July, which conveyed the main findings of the review into the funding for Islamist extremist activity in the UK. The review has improved the Government’s understanding of the nature, scale and sources of funding for Islamist extremism in the UK. It confirmed the most significant source of funding for Islamist extremism in the UK is small, private donations from UK-based individuals. The statement also confirms that the Charity Commission will be introducing a requirement on charities to declare overseas sources of funding to increase transparency in this area.

The review’s report is classified because of the volume of personal information it contains and for national security reasons. The Written Ministerial Statement is a comprehensive and representative reflection of the review’s findings. The Government has no plans to comment further on the review’s findings and it will not provide a running commentary on the groups, individuals or sources it considers to be of extremism concern. The Government’s priority is making the best use of the tools available tools to disrupt extremist activity in the UK.

The Government has invited the appropriate Privy Councillors from the opposition parties into the Home Office to read the classified report on Privy Council terms.