Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to stop the internet being used to attract Muslims to travel to Syria.

Extremist and terrorist organisations such as ISIL are using the internet to disseminate propaganda and recruit individuals to their groups or to support their aims. We are therefore working with responsible social media companies to take robust action against terrorist material. Since 2010, over 100,000 pieces of terrorist-related material have been removed at the request of the dedicated Counter-Terrorism Internet Referral Unit. We are pressing social media companies to take stronger, faster and further action to combat the use of their services by terrorist and extremist groups. We want to see a zero tolerance approach to terrorist activity on their networks. We are also working in partnership with organisations prepared to confront the extremist proposition on the internet, increasing their confidence to challenge extremist content effectively and to provide credible alternatives.