Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask Her Majesty's Government how many people have been sentenced to imprisonment for terrorism offences in each of the last five years.

The Home Office publishes data on the number of persons convicted, following an arrest for a terrorism-related offence, in the quarterly ‘Operation of police powers under the Terrorism Act (TACT) 2000 and subsequent legislation’ statistical release. The number of people (to September of each year) convicted for terrorism related offences over the last five years are as follows:

Under current Office for National Statistics guidelines we are not yet able to release 2019 release figures for TACT and TACT related offenders as this is intended for future publication. The publication date has not yet been confirmed.