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The OSCT, for the year 2009-10, has a total funding of £8.5 million.<ref> [http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/13104/response/36394/attach/2/ResponseT9455%209.doc, Home Office Freedom of Information Request 12172] - accessed 17/11/09 </ref>
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The OSCT, for the year 2009-10, has a total funding of £8.5 million in relation to [[preventing violent extremism]].<ref> [http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/funding_of_prevent_central_unit, Home Office Freedom of Information Request 12172] - accessed 17/11/09 </ref>
  
 
==Subsidiaries==
 
==Subsidiaries==

Revision as of 10:36, 19 November 2009

The Office for Security and Counter-Terrorism (OSCT) is a directorate within the Home Office which leads work on counter-terrorism in the UK. As of October 2009, it reports to Home Secretary Alan Johnson and Minister of State Phil Woolas.[1]

According to the Guardian, the OSCT is widely regarded in Whitehall as being an intelligence agency. The Office's head, Charles Farr, is a former senior intelligence officer, as is another un-named senior officer.[2]

Preventing Violent Extremism

The OSCT, for the year 2009-10, has a total funding of £8.5 million in relation to preventing violent extremism.[3]

Subsidiaries

People

Notes

  1. About us, Office for Security and Counter-Terrorism, Home Office, accessed 17 October 2009.
  2. Vikram Dodd, Government anti-terrorism strategy 'spies' on innocent, guardian.co.uk, 16 October 2009.
  3. Home Office Freedom of Information Request 12172 - accessed 17/11/09