Counter-terrorism: Finance
(asked on 29th August 2025) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which individual local authorities have received funding from her Department under the Prevent scheme in 2024-25; and what the (a) mechanism and (b) timing is by which the funding will be distributed in 2025-26.
The Following local authorities received funding under the Prevent Programme in 2024-25:
| Priority Areas FY24/25 (Alphabetical order) |
1 | Birmingham |
2 | Blackburn with Darwen |
3 | Bradford |
4 | Brent |
5 | Bristol |
6 | Calderdale |
7 | Cardiff |
8 | Croydon |
9 | Derby |
10 | Ealing |
11 | Enfield |
12 | Hackney |
13 | Haringey |
14 | Kent |
15 | Kirklees |
16 | Lambeth |
17 | Leeds |
18 | Leicester |
19 | Liverpool |
20 | Luton |
21 | Manchester |
22 | Newcastle upon Tyne |
23 | Newham |
24 | Nottingham |
25 | Redbridge |
26 | Sandwell |
27 | Sheffield |
28 | Tower Hamlets |
29 | Waltham Forest |
30 | Westminster |
Each year the Home Office conducts an annual prioritisation exercise led by the Home Office’s Homeland Security Analysis and Insight (HSAI) team to understand which Local Authorities are facing the highest threat of radicalisation. The model incorporates both quantitative and qualitative elements.
The prioritisation exercise is carried out in the autumn and funding is granted from 1 April for the following financial year. The exercise for the financial year 2025/26 took place in the Autumn of 2024 and funding was released via grants from 1 April 2025.