Question follow-through · 17368

Terrorism: Surveillance

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of individuals on the terror watchlist are (a) UK citizens, (b) Dual national citizens, (c) UK citizens with at least one non-UK parent and (d) non-UK citizens.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body: Home Office
Tabled: 2 Dec 2024
Target answer date: 4 Dec 2024
Answer: 10 Dec 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

2 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of individuals on the terror watchlist are (a) UK citizens, (b) Dual national citizens, (c) UK citizens with at least one non-UK parent and (d) non-UK citizens.
4 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
10 Dec 2024
Answer published
It is longstanding policy not to discuss either the specific information held on any security-related watchlist, the source of the information or how it is used.To do so would be harmful to the national security of the UK.

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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