UK Terrorism Act 2000 Statistics on Arrests, Outcomes, and Stops & Searches

Annual official statistics from the UK Home Office relating to the Terrorism Act 2000 and subsequent legislation. The report includes data on arrests, their outcomes, and stops and searches made under the Act's powers, with a one-off analysis on charging and sentencing outcomes by religion. The dataset was last updated on 2026-07-08.

Use Cases

• Analyzing trends in terrorism-related arrests based on annual report data.
• Studying the outcomes of terrorism-related arrests, including charging and sentencing.
• Examining patterns in the use of stop and search powers under terrorism legislation.
• Investigating potential disparities in charging and sentencing outcomes by religion based on the one-off analysis.

Strengths

• Annual reporting provides a time-series perspective on law enforcement activity.
• Includes a specific one-off analysis on charging and sentencing outcomes by religion.
• Published by the authoritative source agency, the UK Home Office.
• Available in multiple file formats (XLS, HTML, ODS) for accessibility.

Limitations

• Row count and dataset scale are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data may reflect temporal and geographic bias inherent to UK-focused statistics.

Provenance

Source

Home Office (UK)

Collection Method

Likely compiled from administrative records of police forces in England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:32:57.493806; freshness should be verified.

Geography

United Kingdom