Question to the Home Office:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the effectiveness of the counter-terrorism work carried out as part of the Prevent strategy and the Channel process.

The Home Office continues to monitor and evaluate the Channel programme and locally delivered Prevent projects in order to ensure that they are as effective as they can be and that good practice is shared across the country. In the Counter-Terrorism and Security Bill, we are proposing a new statutory duty on specified authorities (including local authorities, universities, Further Education providers, schools, parts of the NHS, prisons, young offender institutions, probation providers and the police) to have due regard to the need to prevent people from being drawn into terrorism. We are also putting the Channel programme on a statutory footing. These measures will enshrine this good practice and secure local cooperation and delivery in all areas.