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CT Policing online activity analysis capability

Southport Inquiry · The Southport Inquiry Report: Phase 1 · Issued 13 April 2026 · Addressed to: Counter Terrorism Policing, Home Office

Government responseHome Office: Accepted (Jul 2026)

DeliveryNo statement from Home Office found

Recommendation, verbatim from the inquiry

●Inquiry recommendation

Counter Terrorism Policing’s capability to access and analyse data relating to a referred person’s online activity should be reviewed in the context of Prevent referrals, to determine whether staff have the technical tools required to undertake this assessment. The Home Office and Counter Terrorism Policing Headquarters should ensure this review is conducted.

Southport Inquiry, The Southport Inquiry Report: Phase 1 · 13 Apr 2026 Source PDF →

Published evidence summary

AI-generated evidence summary

HM Government stated in July 2026 that the Home Office and Counter Terrorism Policing were working together to deliver the recommendation, noting that the Prevent Assessment Framework introduced in 2025 requires recording online activity (Home Office response, Jul 2026). It added in July 2026 that evaluation of the framework remained ongoing and further updates on an expected completion date would be provided to the Inquiry (Home Office response, Jul 2026). The record holds no update since the government's response of July 2026 (Home Office response, Jul 2026).

Sources

AI-generated summary of the record on this page, checked by a second model and automatic checks, 26 Sep 2026.

Report-level response context

The government's response to Phase 1 (CP 1623, 2 July 2026) agreed with all 67 recommendations in one sentence, and names only 39 of them individually. Where a recommendation is not named, the response shown is the passage the response gives for the group it belongs to (the recommendations for organisations outside central government, or the recommendations to policing bodies), which is not a response to that recommendation alone; the response does not list the members of any group. The 10 recommendations for Phase 2 of the Inquiry to consider show no response: the response introduces them (paragraph 20) but answers none of them. The government accepts the recommendations that are for central government to deliver. Where a recommendation is for an organisation outside central government, the government's agreement is not that organisation's acceptance.

Government response

●Home Office · Accepted · 2 Jul 2026

Words of: HM Government, Government Response to Phase 1 of the Southport Inquiry (CP 1623), presented to Parliament by the Home Secretary, 2 July 2026

The Home Office and CTP are working together to deliver this recommendation. Progress to date:
- The Prevent National Referral Form was updated in 2024 to include a request to provide the individual's social media handle.
- The Prevent Assessment Framework, rolled out in January 2025, requires consideration and recording of online activity throughout.
- Evaluation of the Prevent Assessment Framework is ongoing and any improvements to the tool and accompanying guidance will be considered as part of that process.
- CTP will provide the Inquiry with further updates on the expected date for completing this work.

Extract from: Government Response to Phase 1 of the Southport Inquiry

Delivery

No statement on delivery from Home Office has been found in the sources searched. This is separate from the response above.

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