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Prevent Strategy

I welcome wholeheartedly my right hon. Friend's statement and comments, not least because a couple of weeks ago I received a letter from a Muslim inmate of one of our high-security prisons, in which he said:"'Last week our prison service imam told us 'not to believe western media' in relation to the death of Usama bin Laden. The week prior to that the imam celebrated the escape of hundreds of Taliban prisoners from the Kabul jail.'" He went on to list equally inappropriate teachings by prison imams in a total of five prisons. The Home Secretary is right to draw attention to the previous Government's complacency over the issue. Will she give an undertaking that this will be put right and that we will not be able to say those things next year?