Policy paper
  
  
    Government response to the annual report on the operation of the terrorism acts in 2015
   
 
  
    
        
    The government response to the annual report on the operation of the terrorism acts in 2015 by the Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation.
     
   
  
    
        
      
      This was published under the 2016 to 2019 May Conservative government
      
      
  
    
      
          
    
  
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      Ref: ISBN 9781474148573, 19041725 04/17 60502, Cm. 9489
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            In December 2016, David Anderson QC, Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation, published his annual report on the operation of the terrorism acts in 2015.
This government response addresses the following topics that were covered in the report:
  - the threat picture
- the government, law enforcement, and security and intelligence
- statistics
- ambit of independent review
- definition of terrorism
- proscribed organisations
- port and border controls
- arrest and detention
- criminal proceedings
- foreign terrorist fighters
         
       
      
  
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      Published 20 July 2017