Radicalism: Internet
Home Department
Written answers and statements, 5 November 2009
Margaret Moran (Luton South, Labour)
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people have been (a) identified and (b) prosecuted for spreading extremism on the web in the last 12 months.
Alan Campbell (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Home Office; Tynemouth, Labour)
We do not hold statistics in relation to the spread of violent extremism on the internet—data collected on terrorism prosecutions do not differentiate between online and off-line actions and we are unable accurately to separate all web based terrorism prosecutions from other terrorism prosecutions, in which the internet may have played a part.