Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has plans to commission an independent review of the Prevent strategy.

The UK's counter-terrorism strategy 'CONTEST' was last published in 2011. We are reviewing our entire approach to counter-terrorism and will publish a new counter-terrorism strategy. Prevent is being reviewed as part of the wider CONTEST review.

The review is focusing on four key areas:

o Tackling terrorist ideology;

o Denying safe online spaces to terrorist communications and content;

o Denying safe spaces in the real world (covering both overseas action and counter-extremism work in the UK); and

o Examining CT powers (including sentencing).