Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent steps she has taken to tackle extremism.

We continually look for opportunities to strengthen our response. As part of the Government’s Counter-terrorism strategy, Prevent has necessarily focussed on the hardest end of extremism.

That is why the Home Secretary recently announced that the Home Office will assume responsibility for a new counter-extremism strategy that extends beyond terrorism.

The strategy will aim to better identify extremism in all its forms, confront it, challenge it and defeat it.