Subject: The Home Office's Response to Terrorist Attacks
Committee Member: If we take for example what would be described as racist or fascist elements, most of whom presumably don't wish to engage in terrorism of any kind, but some do and for example a BNP election candidate called Robert Cottage was found last year with the largest amount of chemical explosives ever found in this country and others. So there remains that danger amongst such groups, not necessarily just the BNP.
John Yates, Assistant Commissioner, Metropolitan Police Service: I think that is correct. I think what we have seen in recent months and recent years a growth around some of the far right extremism movements.
Mostly they tend to be less organised. They tend to be the sort of concept of the loan wolf, we have seen several manifestations of that over the past months with arrests and ongoing cases which of course I cannot comment upon, but they are something that we take extremely seriously and balance our resources appropriately to ensure we can devote sufficient to both, that threat, the intelligence picture and of course the response, should that be required.