Policy paper

Response to the report on the terrorism acts in 2021

The government response to the Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation鈥檚 report on the operation of the terrorism acts in 2021.

This was published under the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government

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This is the government鈥檚 response to The Terrorism Acts in 2021, a report by Jonathan Hall KC, the Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation (IRTL).

The Independent Reviewer is responsible for monitoring the operation of UK counter-terrorism legislation to assess its fairness, effectiveness, and proportionality.

The government response addresses the following topics that were covered in the report:

  • threat picture
  • statistics
  • investigating terrorism
  • stopping the travelling public
  • terrorism trials and sentencing
  • online radicalisation

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Published 27 February 2024

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