Official Statistics

Pre-release access to: Individuals referred to and supported through the Prevent Programme, April 2021 to March 2022

Published 26 January 2023

Applies to England and Wales

This statistical bulletin was produced by analytical professionals and production staff in Home Office Analysis and Insight (HOAI) Directorate.

Pre-release access was given to the following persons 24 hours in advance of release:

Home Office

  • Home Secretary
  • Minister of State for Security
  • Permanent Secretary
  • Director General, Homeland Security Group (HSG)
  • Chief of Staff to Director General, HSG
  • Director General, Science, Technology, Analysis and Research (STAR)

  • Director, Prevent, HSG
  • Deputy Director, Prevent, HSG
  • Director, HOAI
  • Acting Head of Profession for Statistics, HOAI
  • Press Officers (5), Press Office
  • Policy Lead, Prevent Communications Team, HSG
  • Special Advisers (6)

In addition, Private Secretaries in the Ministers’ and Special Advisers’ Private Offices will have access to pre-release figures for handling arrangements.

Pre-release access was also given to the following persons from outside the Home Office 24 hours in advance of release:

National Counter Terrorism Policing Headquarters (NCTPHQ)

  • Acting National Coordinator for Prevent
  • Prevent Communications Coordinator
  • Media Manager
  • Higher Performance Manager (2)

Cabinet Office

  • Senior Policy Advisor (2), Counter-Terrorism Prevent and Pursue

Department for Education

  • Deputy Director, Counter-Extremism Division
  • Policy Lead, Prevent, Counter-Extremism Division
  • Communications Lead, Counter-Extremism Division

Department of Health and Social Care

  • Head of Prevent and Extremism
  • Policy Advisor (2), Prevent and Extremism
  • Deputy Director, Emergency Preparedness and Health Protection Directorate

The following staff at the Home Office also had access to pre-release figures for quality assurance purposes.

  • Head of Deradicalisation Intervention Programmes, Prevent, HSG
  • Head of Local Delivery and Communities, Prevent, HSG
  • Policy Leads (2), Prevent, HSG
  • Head of Policing Statistics