Muslim Brotherhood: Finance

(asked on 20th July 2017) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what conclusions her Department's internal review into the funding of UK Islamist extremist groups has reached on the financing of the Muslim Brotherhood in the UK, including from the State of Qatar; and if she will make a statement.


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Sarah Newton
This question was answered on 5th September 2017

The Government laid a Written Ministerial Statement in Parliament on Wednesday 12 July 2017, 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. The Written Ministerial Statement confirms the most significant source of funding for Islamist extremism in the UK is small, private donations from UK-based individuals.

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 concluded a comprehensive review of the Muslim Brotherhood in 2015. The review concluded the movement is a secretive organisation with an ambiguous relationship with violent extremism. The Government remains committed to keeping under review the views promoted and activities undertaken by the Muslim Brotherhood’s associates in the UK, in accordance with the five commitments included in the former Prime Minister’s statement to Parliament.

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