Yvette Cooper MP, Labour’s Shadow Home Secretary, said:

“The Government should ask the ISC to review whether the weakening of counter terror powers and the removal of relocation led to terror networks being re-established.

"We need to know whether David Cameron’s decision to ignore all our warnings and weaken counter terror powers has made it easier for extremists to organise and recruit, and tied the hands of our security agencies. We need to know whether any of those extremists have since been associating with other terror suspects involved in plots in the UK or involved in further extremist activity. The Government have belatedly attempted to re-introduce relocation as a tool for the security agencies but after four years without those powers, why has it taken them so long to act?
 
"Even now it is clear that TPIMs are too weak and it is striking that only one person is currently on a TPIM despite many more plots and people of interest being dealt with by the security agencies. These powers are only for exceptional circumstances and are overseen by the courts. But Ministers should ask the police and security service to review all serious cases to see whether relocation powers could be used in future to protect our security.

"The Intelligence and Security Committee needs to urgently examine the period following the scrapping of control orders. Parliament needs to know whether the legislation to alter counter terror powers affected the UK’s ability to prevent known terrorists from continuing to develop networks in London, before travelling to Syria. 

"The Home Secretary has a duty to protect national security, so if the decisions she made on legislation against expert advice have weakened national security instead, the public and Parliament have a right to know.”

“More also needs to be done to prevent extremism and radicalisation in the first place. We have long called for more community led action as part of the Prevent programme and that is more important than ever now.