Counter-terrorism strategy (CONTEST) 2023
The aim of CONTEST is to reduce the risk from terrorism to the UK, its citizens and interests overseas, so people can live freely and with confidence.
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CONTEST is the UK’s counter-terrorism strategy.
It’s based on 4 themes:
- prevent: to stop people becoming terrorists or supporting terrorism
- pursue: to stop terrorist attacks happening
- protect: to strengthen our protection against a terrorist attack
- prepare: to minimise the impact of a terrorist attack
Since the 2018 version of CONTEST, counter-terrorism efforts by the UK and allies have largely been successful in reducing risk by suppressing the most serious terrorist threats.
We made major updates to the strategy to deal with the changing threat from terrorism, which is now less predictable and harder to detect and investigate.
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Published 18 July 2023Last updated 22 September 2023 + show all updates
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A correction made to the Correction Slip and the Ministerial Foreword to ensure accurate figures in our public documents.
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Correction slip added to 'Counter-terrorism strategy (CONTEST) 2023'.
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Leaflet giving an overview of the strategy published.
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First published.