| answer text |
<p>The Government’s Prevent strategy defines extremism as vocal or active opposition
to fundamental British values, including democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty
and mutual respect and tolerance of different faiths and beliefs. Any civil servant
seen as opposing those values would be a cause for concern.</p><p>As mentioned in
my written answer of 28 October, Civil Servants are subject to the provisions of the
<em>Civil Service Code.</em></p><p>The Home Secretary recently announced that the
Home Office will, for the first time, assume responsibility for a counter-extremism
strategy that goes beyond terrorism. The strategy will aim to build up the public
sector and civil society to identify extremism in all its forms, confront it, challenge
it and defeat it. The need to protect British values will be at the heart of the new
strategy.</p><p> </p>
|
 |
