Radicalism: Internet
Home Department
Written answers and statements, 2 November 2009
Margaret Moran (Luton South, Labour)
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what organisations his Department is working with to prevent the spread of extremism on the web; and if he will make a statement.
David Hanson (Minister of State (Crime and Policing), Home Office; Delyn, Labour)
The strategy to tackle the use of the internet by terrorists and violent extremists is delivered by a wide range of organisations, including a number of Government Departments and agencies, the police, and, crucially, community activists. The internet is a tool which terrorists and violent extremists may seek to use across the range of their activities. We are determined to work with all these partners to make the internet a more hostile environment for them.
Furthermore, in September 2009 the Government launched their Cross-Government Hate Crime Action Plan. This sets out work to improve responses to all types of hate crime, including incitement to hatred that occurs on the internet. It includes actions to update police guidance and structures to ensure effective, robust responses to internet hate crime.