§ Bob SpinkTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs which ethnic groups have been responsible for each of the 20 largest terrorist attacks, in terms of loss of life, across the world in the last four years; and if he will make a statement. [189311]
§ Mr. MacShaneThe Government regard all acts of terrorism as criminal and unjustifiable, wherever and by whomever they are committed. Terrorism threatens democracy, and aims to destabilise legitimately constituted governments and undermine tolerance and the rule of law. The Government do not seek to assign responsibility specifically on the basis of ethnicity.