Speeches by Prinsley.

“I know!”

“Are you trying to say that the facts have slightly changed to fit the decision?”

“That would be a summary of what has gone on here?”

“Hello. I am Peter Prinsley, the MP for Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket, where there is no football club, by the way. Can I ask a little bit about the SAG? What does the SAG consist of? Who are the members of the SAG? How are they appointed?”

“So there are elected councillors sitting on the SAG, from Birmingham city council and the district?”

“I thank my hon. Friend for his answer. During a recent visit to the Westgate community primary school in Bury St Edmunds, I was asked by a very bright eight-year-old whether Parliament could pass a law to make it snow more often. I was very struck by this suggestion, which was in some ways much more realistic than the …”

“My colleague, Professor Malcolm Reed, the former chair of the Medical Schools Council, has been trying to address the serious issue of sexual misconduct in medical schools. When students undertake placements in NHS or other non-university settings, an accountability gap exists, as they fall outside both university and …”

“1. What steps the Commission has taken to enable more schools to visit the Palace of Westminster.”

“Does my hon. Friend acknowledge that the cost of clinical negligence claims in maternity services is now greater than the cost of maternity services?”

“But the public are interested in it.”

“In another world, I know a little bit about how interfaith things are happening, and that the strength of interfaith activities is extremely patchy. There are some places where it works very well; many where it is non-existent.”

“That leads on to the final bit of the question, which is about how we build trust in communities where there is probably widespread scepticism about whether any of this counter-extremism stuff is effective? How do we sell this to the sceptical community?”

“That leads to the next bit of the question, which is all about how a local authority goes about co-ordinating the activities of the schools, youth services, health and community organisations and so on? From what you have just said, it sounds like something that was there has been dismantled, am I correct?”

“I am Peter Prinsley. I am the MP for Bury St Edmunds. Thank you very much for coming this afternoon. This is about local approaches to tackling extremism. You have answered the question about how much of a priority this is given. Do you have sufficient resources at your disposal? If you were to be given additional reso…”

“The question that I asked has a particular political resonance, as you probably understand. I can well understand that referrals from Muslim and Islamic schools would be less, but is Islamic groups within mainstream schools compared to, say, referrals for far-right activities? Would you see any contrast there?”

“Do you think that there is some sort of intrinsic reluctance to make a referral where the fear is that of Islamic radicalisation for fear of being seen to be prejudiced?”

“Do you have an explanation for that?”

“I want to pick up on something that I thought you said—I was not quite sure. Did you say a minute ago that the likelihood of being referred for the danger of far-right activity was greater than the likelihood of being referred for the danger of Islamic?”

“We need to encourage good internet habits at a very early age for these people.”

“Which is why we need to do it very early.”