Concerns over Islamist extremism accounted for 860 referrals or 8%, down 9% on the previous year
A record number of people were reported last year to the UK’s anti-radicalisation Prevent programme, the interior ministry said on Thursday, with “extreme right-wing” concerns accounting for the most referrals related to an ideology.
The Prevent programme is part of the country’s counter-terrorism strategy and aims to identify and stop people in the early stages on the path towards becoming radicalised as extremists.
In the year ending September 2025, people made 10,293 referrals, the highest number for a single year since reporting began in 2015, the Home Office said, calling it a “significant increase”.
The UK in April raised its terror threat level to “severe” – the second-highest, meaning an attack is “highly likely” – with security officials citing the “broader Islamist and extreme right-wing terrorist threat”.
