Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will bring forward proposals for an independent review of the effectiveness of the Prevent strategy.

Since this Government fundamentally revised the Prevent strategy in June 2011,
Prevent activity has become more efficient and focused. Prevent is an effective
programme in reducing the risk of vulnerable individuals being drawn into
terrorism and extremism. We have removed over 75,000 pieces of illegal
terrorist material from the internet, our local projects have reached over
55,000 people, and we have trained over trained over 130,000 public sector
workers. We report on Prevent delivery annually through the CONTEST Annual
report which was last published April 2014.
The Home Office receives and responds to a large volume of correspondence in
relation to the effectiveness of Prevent, from a wide range of organisations,
members of the public, parliamentarians and journalists.