GovWire

This is the governments 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