In today’s Prime Minister’s Questions (Wednesday March 8, 2017), Bolton West MP Chris Green asked Theresa May to respond to concerns that a lack of community integration can lead to terrorism.
The question comes after a detailed study of the origins of British Islamist exposed a link between terrorist crimes and growing up in a predominantly Muslim area.
Speaking in the House of Commons, the MP said:
“Following the recent findings of the study of terror convictions in Britain it is clear that there are serious problems with how communities integrate into society and the danger that this lack of integration leading to acts terrorism.
“Would the Prime Minister update the house on this Government’s counter extremism strategy and respond to these findings?”
Prime Minister Theresa May replied:
“This is a very serious issue that my hon friend has raised and the government is taking a comprehensive approach to tackling terrorism, violent extremism at source but also obviously through our counter extremism strategy looking at extremism more widely and we want to defeat not just terrorism and violent extremism but extremism wherever it occurs.
“We will be publishing shortly a new counter-terrorism strategy and in the coming months we will be responding to Dame Louise Casey’s report on integration but this is backed up by additional investment in our security and intelligence agencies - £2.5 billion over five years – and I’m clear that the government is doing everything it can to tackle issues around integration, extremism and terrorism.”