Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what counter-terrorism measures she has put in place to counter the threat of Islamic State.

This Government has put in place a range of counter-terrorism measures to
protect the public and British interests from all forms of terrorism, including
that posed by ISIL. Our priority is to dissuade people from travelling to
areas of conflict in the first place. To this end, our Prevent Strategy
includes work to identify and support individuals at risk of radicalisation.

The Counter-Terrorism and Security Act, which received Royal Assent last month,
added to existing powers by: disrupting the ability of people to travel abroad
to fight, and to return here; enhancing our ability to monitor and control the
actions of those in the UK that pose a threat; and combating the underlying
ideology that feeds, supports and sanctions terrorism.

The fight against Islamist extremist terrorism is not just one that we can wage
by the police and border controls. It needs every school, every university,
every college, every community to recognise they have a role to play. The
Prevent duty contained in the Counter-Terrorism and Security Act requires
specified authorities to have due regard to the need to prevent people from
being drawn into terrorism.