Interview Questions

Basic Participant Information [background only]

• 1. Participant Name

• 2. Participant Job Title

• 3. How long have you been in this role?

• 4. What is your professional background?

Participant view of counter-terrorism review

• 5. What do you think counter-terrorism review is?

• 6. What do you think is the purpose of counter-terrorism review?

Participant role in relation to counter-terrorism review

• 7. What role do you have in relation to counter-terrorism review?

• 8. How do you view this role as relating to other forms of counterterrorism review?

Desired change or role constraints

• 9. Is there anything you think you should have the power to review that you do not currently have the power to review?

• 10. Is there anything you do have the power to review that you think you do not really need to review?

Process

• 11. Can you tell me how you go about doing [reference to described counter-terrorism review role]?

Access to information

• 12. What information do you need to undertake your counter-terrorism review role?

Constraints, frustrations, strengths of counter-terrorism review currently

• 13. What are the main challenges/frustrations that you face in the context of your counter-terrorism review work?

• 14. What would change/meet those challenges?

• 15. What changes would you like to see to the current approach to counter-terrorism review?

• 16. What, in your view, are the strengths of the current approach to counter-terrorism review?

Impact

• 17. What happens on the basis of your recommendations/findings/reports?

• 18. What affects whether a review will bring about change or not?

Audience

• 19. When writing your recommendations/findings/reports who do you expect will read it? For whom are you writing?

• 20. When you read the reports arising from other mechanisms (government, Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation, Select Committees, Courts etc.) who do you think the target audience is?