Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that the Prevent strategy and Prevent duty directives do not unfairly target racial and religious minorities.

Prevent does not target a specific faith or ethnic group. The Prevent Programme is fundamentally about safeguarding and supporting vulnerable individuals to stop them from becoming terrorists or supporting terrorism. Prevent is implemented in a proportionate manner that takes into account the level of risk in any given area or institution.

The introduction of the Prevent Duty has embedded consideration of the risk of radicalisation in the day-to-day work of frontline statutory partners. We are equipping frontline professionals through Prevent training with the skills and knowledge to help them understand better the role that they can play in countering radicalisation and refer individuals they are concerned about.