Question follow-through · 82350

Ali Harbi Ali

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether checks were undertaken with Ali Harbi Ali’s school in Croydon before he was permitted to exit the Prevent programme.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body
Home Office
Tabled
15 Oct 2025
Target answer date
20 Oct 2025
Answer
29 Oct 2025 · 14 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 15 Oct 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether checks were undertaken with Ali Harbi Ali’s school in Croydon before he was permitted to exit the Prevent programme.

  2. 20 Oct 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 29 Oct 2025

    Answer published

    Prevent has been an integral part of our counter-terrorism machinery for the last twenty years, supporting over 5,000 people away from radicalisation since the introduction of the Prevent duty in 2015. Of course, we must continue to identify where Preven...

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