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Government Impact Assessment on the value of Crowded Place Security

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In the face of terrorism threat, we must make sure that we learn from experience and gain a greater understanding about how attacks might be carried out and how we can work to mitigate their impact. 
 
The attached impact assessment details just how valuable wider engagement and business continuity planning would be to the safety of our communities and provide better security from a range of security and business threats as an added bonus.
 
Lord West (Home Office Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Security and Counter-Terrorism) undertook the review into how best to protect crowded places (and transport infrastructure and critical national infrastructure) from terrorist attack.
 
The results of the review were announced by the Prime Minister on 14 November 2007 (with further detail given in the Home Secretary’s Written Ministerial Statement on the same date). The written ministerial statement can be found at:
 
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200708/cmhansrd/cm071114/wmstext/71114.
 
The review itself has not been published for security reasons.
 
The review showed that a substantial amount of work had been undertaken or was underway to increase levels of protective security, but that more was needed to turn available advice into action on the ground. More Business Continuity planning within organisations is pivotal to this goal.
 
A key finding of the review was the importance of engaging with a wide range of local partners, in particular local authorities and local businesses, to implement counter-terrorism protective security advice and allow them to make rational decisions on protective security measures.
 
The review also highlighted that individuals and businesses must be free to carry on normal social, economic and democratic activities and, as a result, there will always be some vulnerability to terrorist attack. Protective security measures must be proportionate to the risk and one of the main purposes of this policy is to ensure that effort is directed to those areas where the counter-terrorism benefits will be the greatest.
 
The Government wants to reduce the vulnerability of crowded places at highest risk and these guidance documents will help make real progress in delivering a sustained and continuous reduction in vulnerability over the next few years where it is most needed.
 
For the full impact assessment please click below:
 
Crowded Spaces impact Assessment
 
 
 
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