Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions she has had with universities on ensuring that lecturers do not encourage the development of extremist views.
The Home Office, in conjunction with the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, has met with universities and Higher Education representative bodies, such as Universities UK, to discuss tackling extremism. Full public consultation was carried out in the course of the Counter-Terrorism and Security Act in which the Higher Education sector and universities were directly consulted.