Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department intends to review security procedures in relation to terrorist attacks using vehicles following the attacks in Berlin on 19 December 2016.

Similar to the reviews which took place after the Nice attacks, the police and the security and intelligence agencies have reviewed security measures in place to ensure that there are robust plans and procedures in place to ensure the safety and security of the public from terrorist threats following the Berlin attack. This is a routine activity for the police and intelligence agencies, which is undertaken on a regular basis.

We continue to work with owners and operators of events and other crowded places sites to consider what more can be done to reduce vulnerabilities to vehicle attacks. We also regularly test our response to terrorist attacks, including learning the lessons from attacks like those we have seen recently in Germany and France, through national exercises which involve the Government, military, police, ambulance, fire and rescue service, and other agencies.

In addition we keep our preparedness under constant review, and looked again at our response following the terrorist attacks in Paris last year, delivering an uplift in our specialist response capability, including a £144 million programme over the next five years to uplift our armed policing resource.