John Reid will today propose setting up a terrorist offenders register as part of a series of long-term counter-terror measures.

The proposal, based on similar lines to the existing sex offenders register, is one of a series of ideas that the Home Secretary will suggest should be part of the country’s antiterror defences.

One idea being studied by Mr Reid would be to allow the register to operate retrospectively, making an estimated 40 people convicted under terror laws since 2001 liable for immediate listing.

The Home Secretary will say that police should be allowed to continue questioning terror suspects after they have been charged.

He will also outline a plan to allow judges to impose a harsher sentence on people with links to terrorism who are convicted under the criminal law.

This would apply in particular to people convicted of credit card fraud who have links to terrorism.

Another measure would give police the power forcibly to enter the home of a terror suspect held under a control order.

But the pamphlet, to be published today, will not include firm proposals to extend beyond 28 days the length of time that police can hold terror suspects.

One idea being studied by the Home Office is a middle way in which, on a case-by-case basis, police would be able to seek permission from a High Court judge to extend detention for a further seven days.

Today’s pamphlet will also not include a proposal for a committee of Privy Counsellors to conduct yet another review of whether phone-tap evidence should be admissible in courts.

Nor will it include any plan to give police sweeping powers to stop and question anyone in Britain about their identity and movements.

The pamphlet will be published against a background of undisguised anger in the Home Office at last weekend’s briefing by allies of Gordon Brown of the counter-terror plans.

Most of the plans were Home Office proposals and others had been put forward four years ago by an all-party committee of Privy Counsellors.

Mr Reid is also understood to be annoyed that Peter Hain has cautioned in a letter that giving police powers to stop and question will act as a “recruiting sergeant for extrem-ism”.

The Home Office has said that the original idea did not come initially from the department but from Mr Hain himself. Neither the Association of Chief Police Officers nor the Metropolitan Police had officially asked the Government for an extension of their existing “stop and search” powers.

Mr Reid is said by Westminster sources to be angry at the activities of Mr Hain, who is currently running to be Deputy Leader of the Labour party.

One source told The Times that when the Home Secretary returned from the second meeting of the new ministerial committee on security and terrorism he was “p***ed off” with Mr Hain’s behaviour.

Under Mr Reid’s idea for a terror offenders register, terrorists would be expected to register their names and addresses with police within 72 hours of leaving jail. They would give police their names, dates of birth, home addresses and national insurance numbers and would initially report in person at their local police stations.

A registered offender would also be expected to notify police that he or she was intending to travel abroad.

Anyone failing to register could face a prison sentence of up to a maximum five years.

Last night Nick Clegg, the Liberal Democrat home affairs spokesman, said that today’s idea would present Mr Brown with a stark choice.

“Does he seek to extract narrow political advantage by talking tough on terror or does he take real steps to forge a national consensus?

“The British public rightly expect that on an issue of such importance, parties will work together rather than create synthetic points of difference.

“But that consensus will only be possible if all the proposals advocated by the Government are based on clear and compelling evidence, and achieve the right balance between our customary British liberty and new security measures.”

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