I thank the Minister for that. If it is all as happily happening as he suggests, I hope that he will be able to agree to new clause 12. I suspect it is not happening, which is why young people in my community tell me that they feel that the Prevent approach is stigmatising. That is not a criticism of the local people in my constituency who are doing their very best to deal with what they themselves feel is not a terribly helpful approach. It is a criticism that echoes what the hon. Member for Perth and North Perthshire (Pete Wishart) just said about the feeling that the approach targets people in a very stigmatising way, as though they are the problem, rather than asking the wider questions we have a responsibility to ask about how and why people become radicalised. If we ask those questions, we might find ourselves rather more responsible for some of the answers, in the broadest sense, than if we simply assume that this is somehow outside our control and our responsibility.
Counter-Terrorism and Security Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Caroline Lucas
(Green Party)
in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 16 December 2014.
It occurred during Debate on bills
and
Committee of the Whole House (HC) on Counter-Terrorism and Security Bill.
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