{"value":{"id":1843677,"askingMemberId":4988,"askingMember":null,"house":"Lords","memberHasInterest":false,"dateTabled":"2025-10-21T00:00:00","dateForAnswer":"2025-11-04T00:00:00","uin":"HL11192","questionText":"To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the risk of extreme left-wing terrorism in the UK, including Antifa and related groups.","answeringBodyId":1,"answeringBodyName":"Home Office","isWithdrawn":false,"isNamedDay":false,"groupedQuestions":[],"answerIsHolding":false,"answerIsCorrection":false,"answeringMemberId":533,"answeringMember":null,"correctingMemberId":null,"correctingMember":null,"dateAnswered":"2025-11-04T00:00:00","answerText":"<p>The UK’s counter-terrorism strategy, CONTEST, provides a comprehensive framework for tackling all forms of terrorism and is kept under constant review to ensure our approach remains fit for purpose in response to emerging risks and challenges.</p><p> </p><p>As outlined in the publication of the most recent iteration of CONTEST, in July 2023, Left Wing, Anarchist and Single-Issue Terrorism (LASIT) currently represents a significantly smaller terrorist threat to the UK than Islamist terrorism or ERWT and is not currently present in the UK at any significant scale.</p>","originalAnswerText":"","comparableAnswerText":"","dateAnswerCorrected":null,"dateHoldingAnswer":null,"attachmentCount":0,"heading":"Radicalism: Terrorism","attachments":[],"groupedQuestionsDates":[]},"links":[{"rel":"self","href":"/Questions/1843677","method":"GET"}]}