Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent discussions she has had with the European Commissioner for Migration and Home Affairs on the applicability of the European Security Strategy to the UK since recent terrorist attacks in Paris and Brussels; and what assessment she has made of the potential merits of the wider use of the EU Radicalisation Awareness Network Centre of Excellence in the UK.

The European Agenda on Security is a European Commission communication, and has no legal force or application to the UK. Where there are individual Justice and Home Affairs measures, the Government will take an opt-in decision on a case-by-case basis, putting the national interest at the heart of the decision making process. The UK has a national counter terrorism strategy, CONTEST, which informs its counter terrorism activity. The Home Office engages closely with policy makers and practitioners elsewhere to share expertise.