Counter-Terrorism Bill
1:00 pm
Lord Carlile: I do not accept that. The Government have now given a great deal of resources to the prevents strand of counter-terrorism strategy, and they are right about that. I was at a conference organised by the national co-ordinator for ports policing last week, and the most important part of that conference was about prevents. That is a culture change in the police and it is one that they have embraced very well. But I do not see the period of detention as a recruiting ground. As we see in academic studies, the extent to which anything is a recruiting ground is very uncertain, even the war in Iraq. I think that the prevents strategy is terrible important but it does not have much to do with this.