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1716025

	registered interest
	date	07/05/2024
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Hate Crime: Disability
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to recommendation 90(c) of the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities' Report on follow-up to the inquiry concerning the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, advance unedited version published on 22 March 2024, if he will take steps to ensure that protections for disabled people under hate crime laws are nationally consistent.
	tabling member constituency	Battersea
	tabling member printed	Marsha De Cordova
	uin	25032
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/05/2024 answer text <p>Hate crime is a devolved matter in Scotland and Northern Ireland and falls within the legislative competence of the Scottish Parliament and Northern Ireland Executive respectively.</p><p>In England and Wales, we have a robust legislative framework to respond to all forms of hate crime, including disability hate crime. Whilst the police are operationally independent and work in line with the College of Policing’s operational guidance to respond to hate crime, we expect the police to fully investigate these abhorrent offences and work with the Crown Prosecution Service to ensure perpetrators are brought to justice.</p> answering member constituency Newbury answering member printed Laura Farris question first answered 14/05/2024 14:36:36 answering member 4826 label Biography information for Laura Farris
	tabling member	4676 label Biography information for Marsha De Cordova

1694339

	registered interest
	date	06/03/2024
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Hate Crime: Disability
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what consideration they have given to promoting awareness of the grounds for reporting appearance-related abuse or harassment as a disability-related hate crime, including on public transport.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Merron
	uin	HL3074
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2024 answer text <p>We have a robust legislative framework to respond to hate crimes which target disability. We expect the police to fully investigate these appalling offences and work with the Crown Prosecution Service to ensure perpetrators are brought to justice.</p><p>The Government is pleased to see the overall reduction in police-recorded hate crime in the year ending March 2023, including a 1% reduction in disability hate crime compared with the previous year. However, any instance is one too many and we remain absolutely committed to ensuring these appalling offences are stamped out.</p><p>We do not have a specific category of “appearance-related abuse” in the current legal framework, however criminal offences can be prosecuted as hate crimes when immediately, before, during or after the offence was committed the offender demonstrated hostility towards the victim based upon the victim’s actual or perceived disability, or where the offence was motivated by such hostility.</p><p>Our absolute priority is to get more police onto our streets, cut crime, protect the public and bring more criminals to justice. We are supporting the police by providing them with the resources they need. We delivered our commitment to recruit an additional 20,000 officers by March 2023 and there are now over 149,000 officers in England and Wales, which is higher than the previous peak in March 2010 before the Police Uplift Programme.</p> answering member printed Lord Sharpe of Epsom question first answered 20/03/2024 12:35:42 answering member 4888 label Biography information for Lord Sharpe of Epsom
	tabling member	347 label Biography information for Baroness Merron

1657431

	registered interest
	date	01/09/2023
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Hate Crime: Disability
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of including policies to help tackle disability-motivated hate crime in the Disability Action Plan 2023 to 2024.
	tabling member constituency	Battersea
	tabling member printed	Marsha De Cordova
	uin	197001
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2023 answer text <p>The Disability Action Plan Consultation asks for feedback on a number of specific proposals, as well as people's views on the plan as a whole and what alternative actions the Government might consider taking forward. We look forward to reviewing the results of this consultation, which will inform the final Disability Action Plan.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 07/09/2023 14:54:15 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
	tabling member	4676 label Biography information for Marsha De Cordova

1588182

	registered interest
	date	22/02/2023
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Hate Crime: Disability
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent steps her Department has taken to help prevent hate crime against disabled people.
	tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
	tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
	uin	150553
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2023 answer text <p>Hate crime is a scourge on communities across the country. It does not reflect the values of modern Britain.</p><p>All forms of hate crime, including disability hate crime, are completely unacceptable. We expect the police to fully investigate these hateful attacks and make sure the cowards who commit them feel the full force of the law.</p><p>Our absolute priority is to get more police onto our streets, cut crime, protect the public and bring more criminals to justice. We are supporting the police by providing them with the resources they need, including recruiting 20,000 extra police officers.</p><p> </p><p>To tackle online hate crime, including disability hate crime, we fund a National Online Hate Crime Hub, which is a central police capability designed to support forces in dealing with online hate crime. The hub includes a public reporting portal and provides expert advice to forces to support them in investigating these offences.</p><p>The Home Office collects and publishes data on the proportion of disability hate crime offences which resulted in a charge or summons for selected offence groups in an annual statistical bulletin on hate crime. Data for 2021/22 can be found in Figure 2.8 of the publication, available here: <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fstatistics%2Fhate-crime-england-and-wales-2021-to-2022%2Fhate-crime-england-and-wales-2021-to-2022&amp;data=05%7C01%7CAdam.Qureshi%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7C8a4e7124c83c4c893b5708db15802e81%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C638127412493707451%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=kdF8f9fut7ddVTNoGzghVPLL9IjyU2Qk1IYYJ%2Fz%2Fzig%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Hate crime, England and Wales, 2021 to 2022 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a>.</p><p>Data for previous years can be found in the respective annual publications.</p> answering member constituency Derbyshire Dales answering member printed Miss Sarah Dines grouped question UIN 150554 150570 150571 question first answered 01/03/2023 16:55:54 answering member 4816 label Biography information for Miss Sarah Dines
	tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

1588185

	registered interest
	date	22/02/2023
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Hate Crime: Disability
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent steps her Department has taken to help encourage individuals to report hate crime against disabled people.
	tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
	tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
	uin	150554
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2023 answer text <p>Hate crime is a scourge on communities across the country. It does not reflect the values of modern Britain.</p><p>All forms of hate crime, including disability hate crime, are completely unacceptable. We expect the police to fully investigate these hateful attacks and make sure the cowards who commit them feel the full force of the law.</p><p>Our absolute priority is to get more police onto our streets, cut crime, protect the public and bring more criminals to justice. We are supporting the police by providing them with the resources they need, including recruiting 20,000 extra police officers.</p><p> </p><p>To tackle online hate crime, including disability hate crime, we fund a National Online Hate Crime Hub, which is a central police capability designed to support forces in dealing with online hate crime. The hub includes a public reporting portal and provides expert advice to forces to support them in investigating these offences.</p><p>The Home Office collects and publishes data on the proportion of disability hate crime offences which resulted in a charge or summons for selected offence groups in an annual statistical bulletin on hate crime. Data for 2021/22 can be found in Figure 2.8 of the publication, available here: <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fstatistics%2Fhate-crime-england-and-wales-2021-to-2022%2Fhate-crime-england-and-wales-2021-to-2022&amp;data=05%7C01%7CAdam.Qureshi%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7C8a4e7124c83c4c893b5708db15802e81%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C638127412493707451%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=kdF8f9fut7ddVTNoGzghVPLL9IjyU2Qk1IYYJ%2Fz%2Fzig%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Hate crime, England and Wales, 2021 to 2022 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a>.</p><p>Data for previous years can be found in the respective annual publications.</p> answering member constituency Derbyshire Dales answering member printed Miss Sarah Dines grouped question UIN 150553 150570 150571 question first answered 01/03/2023 16:55:54 answering member 4816 label Biography information for Miss Sarah Dines
	tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

1588240

	registered interest
	date	22/02/2023
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Hate Crime: Disability
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many disability hate crime reports resulted in a charge in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
	tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
	uin	150570
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2023 answer text <p>Hate crime is a scourge on communities across the country. It does not reflect the values of modern Britain.</p><p>All forms of hate crime, including disability hate crime, are completely unacceptable. We expect the police to fully investigate these hateful attacks and make sure the cowards who commit them feel the full force of the law.</p><p>Our absolute priority is to get more police onto our streets, cut crime, protect the public and bring more criminals to justice. We are supporting the police by providing them with the resources they need, including recruiting 20,000 extra police officers.</p><p> </p><p>To tackle online hate crime, including disability hate crime, we fund a National Online Hate Crime Hub, which is a central police capability designed to support forces in dealing with online hate crime. The hub includes a public reporting portal and provides expert advice to forces to support them in investigating these offences.</p><p>The Home Office collects and publishes data on the proportion of disability hate crime offences which resulted in a charge or summons for selected offence groups in an annual statistical bulletin on hate crime. Data for 2021/22 can be found in Figure 2.8 of the publication, available here: <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fstatistics%2Fhate-crime-england-and-wales-2021-to-2022%2Fhate-crime-england-and-wales-2021-to-2022&amp;data=05%7C01%7CAdam.Qureshi%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7C8a4e7124c83c4c893b5708db15802e81%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C638127412493707451%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=kdF8f9fut7ddVTNoGzghVPLL9IjyU2Qk1IYYJ%2Fz%2Fzig%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Hate crime, England and Wales, 2021 to 2022 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a>.</p><p>Data for previous years can be found in the respective annual publications.</p> answering member constituency Derbyshire Dales answering member printed Miss Sarah Dines grouped question UIN 150553 150554 150571 question first answered 01/03/2023 16:55:54 answering member 4816 label Biography information for Miss Sarah Dines
	tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

1588241

	registered interest
	date	22/02/2023
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Hate Crime: Disability
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many disability hate crime reports resulted in a court summons in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
	tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
	uin	150571
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2023 answer text <p>Hate crime is a scourge on communities across the country. It does not reflect the values of modern Britain.</p><p>All forms of hate crime, including disability hate crime, are completely unacceptable. We expect the police to fully investigate these hateful attacks and make sure the cowards who commit them feel the full force of the law.</p><p>Our absolute priority is to get more police onto our streets, cut crime, protect the public and bring more criminals to justice. We are supporting the police by providing them with the resources they need, including recruiting 20,000 extra police officers.</p><p> </p><p>To tackle online hate crime, including disability hate crime, we fund a National Online Hate Crime Hub, which is a central police capability designed to support forces in dealing with online hate crime. The hub includes a public reporting portal and provides expert advice to forces to support them in investigating these offences.</p><p>The Home Office collects and publishes data on the proportion of disability hate crime offences which resulted in a charge or summons for selected offence groups in an annual statistical bulletin on hate crime. Data for 2021/22 can be found in Figure 2.8 of the publication, available here: <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fstatistics%2Fhate-crime-england-and-wales-2021-to-2022%2Fhate-crime-england-and-wales-2021-to-2022&amp;data=05%7C01%7CAdam.Qureshi%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7C8a4e7124c83c4c893b5708db15802e81%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C638127412493707451%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=kdF8f9fut7ddVTNoGzghVPLL9IjyU2Qk1IYYJ%2Fz%2Fzig%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Hate crime, England and Wales, 2021 to 2022 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a>.</p><p>Data for previous years can be found in the respective annual publications.</p> answering member constituency Derbyshire Dales answering member printed Miss Sarah Dines grouped question UIN 150553 150554 150570 question first answered 01/03/2023 16:55:54 answering member 4816 label Biography information for Miss Sarah Dines
	tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

1540846

	registered interest
	date	08/11/2022
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Hate Crime: Disability
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 8 November 2022 to Question 78638 on Hate Crime: Disability, what her planned timetable is for publication of her Department's response to the recommendations.
	tabling member constituency	Nottingham North
	tabling member printed	Alex Norris
	uin	82417
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/11/2022 answer text <p>The Government will publish a response setting out its views on the Law Commission’s recommendations.</p> answering member constituency Derbyshire Dales answering member printed Miss Sarah Dines question first answered 14/11/2022 17:13:58 answering member 4816 label Biography information for Miss Sarah Dines
	tabling member	4641 label Biography information for Alex Norris

1539133

	registered interest
	date	03/11/2022
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Hate Crime: Disability
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department is taking steps to implement the Law Commission recommendation on establishing equal protections for people who are assaulted due to their disability as exist for people assaulted due to their race in their report entitled Hate crime laws: Final report, published on 7 December 2021.
	tabling member constituency	Nottingham North
	tabling member printed	Alex Norris
	uin	78638
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/11/2022 answer text <p>The Government is considering the Law Commission’s proposals carefully and will respond to the recommendations shortly.</p> answering member constituency Derbyshire Dales answering member printed Miss Sarah Dines question first answered 08/11/2022 13:55:43 answering member 4816 label Biography information for Miss Sarah Dines
	tabling member	4641 label Biography information for Alex Norris

1483585

	registered interest
	date	27/06/2022
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Hate Crime: Disability
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to deal with disability hate crimes.
	tabling member constituency	Bournemouth East
	tabling member printed	Mr Tobias Ellwood
	uin	25773
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/07/2022 answer text <p>All forms of hate crime are completely unacceptable.</p><p>We have a robust legislative framework to respond to hate crimes which target race, religion, sexual orientation, disability and transgender identity, and the Hate Crime Action Plan has improved the response to all forms of hate crime, including disability hate crime.</p> answering member constituency Redditch answering member printed Rachel Maclean question first answered 05/07/2022 13:53:47 answering member 4668 label Biography information for Rachel Maclean
	tabling member	1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood

1418757

	registered interest
	date	01/02/2022
	answering body	Attorney General
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	hansard heading	Hate Crime: Disability
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Attorney General, pursuant to the Answer of 1 February 2022 to Question 110472 on National Scrutiny Panel on Disability Hate Crime, if she will respond to the the request to publish further details of the membership of the National Scrutiny Panel on Disability Hate Crime.
	tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
	tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
	uin	115977
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2022 answer text <p>National Scrutiny Panels (NSPs) are one-off, non-recurring meetings designed to focus on a specific topic relating to Hate Crime. The format and membership of each NSP is adapted to the context of the specific topic under consideration. The overarching approach is to seek representation from: community perspectives; relevant Government departments; the police and academic or other specialist interests.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>For the National Scrutiny Panel on Disability Hate Crime, the following were invited to participate: Dimensions; Inclusion London; the Disability Network; Disability Rights UK; Members of CPS Area Local Involvement and Scrutiny Panels; the National Autistic Society; MIND; Home Office; Ministry of Justice; HMCTS; National Police Chiefs Council and two specialists with a focus on Disability Hate Crime.</p> answering member constituency Cheltenham answering member printed Alex Chalk question first answered 07/02/2022 09:29:01 answering member 4481 label Biography information for Alex Chalk
	tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

1415958

	registered interest
	date	24/01/2022
	answering body	Attorney General
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	hansard heading	Hate Crime: Disability
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Attorney General, pursuant to the Answer of 18 January 2022 to Question 102715 on Disability: Crimes of Violence, if she will publish further details of the membership of the National Scrutiny Panel on Disability Hate Crime.
	tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
	tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
	uin	110472
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/02/2022 answer text <p>A National Scrutiny Panel on Disability Hate Crime was convened by the CPS in March 2021, consisting of community stakeholders, academics and police. The Panel focused on in-depth scrutiny of the handling of disability hate crime cases. As a result, the CPS will this month circulate a bulletin to all prosecutors. This will highlight key findings, lessons and top tips arising from the review. In addition, operational guidance has been refreshed and will be launched this month. It will provide prosecutors with an updated appreciation of how disability hate crime occurs, based on the lived experience of disabled people.</p> answering member constituency Cheltenham answering member printed Alex Chalk question first answered 01/02/2022 09:23:12 answering member 4481 label Biography information for Alex Chalk
	tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

1254898

	registered interest
	date	24/11/2020
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Hate Crime: Disability
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to tackle recent trends in the level of disability hate crimes in England and Wales.
	tabling member constituency	Bath
	tabling member printed	Wera Hobhouse
	uin	120103
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/11/2020 answer text <p>Hate crime is completely unacceptable, and this Government takes it very seriously. That is why the Government published the Hate Crime Action Plan in 2016 and refreshed it in October 2018.</p><p>The Action Plan established a public awareness campaign which included examples of disability hate crime to make clear that such acts are completely unacceptable, held two ministerial meetings with disability groups and social media companies to help tackle online abuse of disabled people and provided £193,000 in funding for community projects that directly tackled disability hate crime.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 30/11/2020 17:10:11 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	4602 label Biography information for Wera Hobhouse

1167536

	registered interest
	date	30/10/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Hate Crime: Disability
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Williams of Trafford on 28 October (HL137), what plans they have specifically in relation to hate crime towards disabled people.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Lister of Burtersett
	uin	HL544
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2019 answer text <p>The Hate Crime Action Plan 2016 included a number of commitments to</p><p>address disability hate crime. These commitments were:</p><ul><li>To look at current best practice examples in tackling disability hate crime and work with partner organisations and the police to promote safety for disabled people.</li><li>To continue to work with community groups to raise awareness of hate crime among disabled people and increasing the availability of third party reporting venues, in particular at locations and through services that are used by disabled people.</li><li>The police will lead work with partners and disabled people’s groups to develop resources targeted to raise awareness of hate crime among carers and families of disabled people to encourage reporting.</li><li>The National Policing Lead to assess proactive recording pilots to see if there is anything to be learned that will increase the recording of disability hate crime.</li></ul><p>In October 2018, the Government published a refresh of the Action Plan, which included the following further commitments on disability hate crime:</p><ul><li>Department for Transport committed, in the July 2018 Inclusive Transport Strategy, to run a public awareness raising campaign to increase disability awareness amongst all transport passengers.</li><li>Continue to help the charity representing people with disfigurement, Changing Faces, in its work with social media companies.</li><li>The Department of Health and Social Care is leading a long-term study of the impact of integrated support for people with learning disabilities, including on the occurrence of disability hate crime.</li><li>Work with community groups to raise awareness of disability hate crime, and consider the best options for third party reporting centres for disabled people. We will work with the Association of Police and Crime Commissioners, and others, to understand where these services already exist, and how best we can promote their availability.</li><li>Increase and broaden our engagement with stakeholders representing disabled people.</li><li>Draw from ongoing doctoral research into police responses to learning disability hate crime underway at the Institute of Criminal Justice Studies, University of Portsmouth.</li></ul><p>The 2018 Hate Crime Action Plan refresh also includes a number of broader actions addressing all forms of hate crime, including disability hate crime. These include:</p><ul><li>Publication of the Online Harms White Paper, which sets out plans hold social media companies to greater account;</li><li>A review by the Law Commission into the coverage and approach of current hate crime legislation; and</li><li>A wide-ranging national hate crime communications campaign to publicly address hate crime and make clear that it is unacceptable to target people on the basis of their identity.</li></ul> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 05/11/2019 13:00:47 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
	tabling member	4234 label Biography information for Baroness Lister of Burtersett

1149845

	registered interest
	date	15/10/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Hate Crime: Disability
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to reduce violent hate crime towards disabled people.
	tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
	uin	HL137
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2019 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">We are taking determined action to tackle knife crime and other serious violence, including by preventing children and young people from gaining access to knives in the first place. It is already illegal to sell knives and certain articles with blade or point to anyone under 18 in England and Wales, whether face to face or online, and the Offensive Weapons Act 2019 will further strengthen the law by stopping knives being sent to residential addresses after being bought online, unless the seller has arrangements in place with the delivery company to ensure that the product will not be delivered to a person under 18. Through the Offensive Weapons Act, we will also introduce new Knife Crime Prevention Orders which will give the police an important new tool to help them to work with both young people and adults at risk of being drawn into knife crime to steer them away from serious violence.</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">It is vital that the police have the resources and tools they need to tackle knife crime, including possession of knives on our streets. This is why we have increased police funding by more than £1 billion this year, including council tax and the £100 million Serious Violence Fund. Through the Serious Violence Fund we have provided £63.4 million to the 18 police forces worst affected by serious violence to pay for surge operational activity, and £1.6 million to help improve the quality of data on serious violence, particularly knife crime, to support planning and operations. In addition, £35million of the Serious Violence Fund is being invested in Violence Reductions Units which will form a key component of our action to build capacity in local areas to tackle the root causes of serious violence.</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">We have also launched a national campaign to begin to recruit 20,000 new police officers over the next three years, and we are making it easier for the police to use their important stop and search powers which is a vital tool in tackling knife possession on our streets and in our local communities.In addition, we continue to encourage all police forces to undertake a series of coordinated national weeks of action to tackle knife crime under Operation Sceptre. The latest phase of the operation took place from 17 to 22 September and included targeted stop and searches, weapon sweeps, and surrender of knives, including through amnesty bins. The operation also includes test purchase operations to identify those retailers who flout the law and sell knives to under 18s. Through our dedicated Prosecution Fund we are supporting Trading Standards to prosecute rogue retailers who repeatedly fail test purchases.</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">We are also addressing the root causes of serious violence by investing over £220 million in early intervention projects, and as announced in the Queen’s Speech, we are bringing forward a new Bill to introduce a new legal duty on public bodies to work together to prevent and tackle serious violence.</del></p><p><ins class="ministerial">Any form of hate crime is completely unacceptable, and this Government takes hate crime very seriously.That is why the Government published the Hate Crime Action Plan in 2016, and refreshed it in October 2018.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">The Action Plan includes a number of commitments that address all forms of hate crime. These include a review of hate crime legislation by the Law Commission which commenced earlier this year, a public awareness campaign that included specific examples of disability hate crime to make it clear that it is unacceptable. </ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">Additionally, the Action Plan includes specific plans to tackle disability hate crime, including increased engagement with disability stakeholders, hosting two ministerial roundtables with disability groups and social media companies to help tackle online abuse of disabled people, and providing funding for community projects that directly tackle disability hate crime.</ins></p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 28/10/2019 17:23:01 question first ministerially corrected 29/10/2019 17:24:13 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford previous answer version 2221 answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
	tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

1149022

	registered interest
	date	14/10/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Hate Crime: Disability
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people have been (a) prosecuted for and (b) convicted of offences where disability hate crime was a factor in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Wolverhampton North East
	tabling member printed	Emma Reynolds
	uin	258
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2019 answer text <p>The Ministry of Justice publishes information on prosecutions and convictions by detailed offence. There is no specific offence under legislation for crimes involving disability hate crime, rather it is an aggravating factor in offences. This information may be held on court record, however, identifying these cases would require a manual search of court records, which would be of disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 17/10/2019 14:28:44 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
	tabling member	4077 label Biography information for Emma Reynolds

1138795

	registered interest
	date	15/07/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Hate Crime: Disability
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	What recent assessment he has made of trends in the level of reported disability hate crime.
	tabling member constituency	Oldham East and Saddleworth
	tabling member printed	Debbie Abrahams
	uin	911940
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2019 answer text <p>The latest official data indicates an increase in police recorded disability hate crime, which is mostly due to general police recording improvements.</p><p>The latest Crime Survey for England and Wales indicates a downward trend in overall hate crime incidence over the past decade but any instance is one too many and we stand alongside all victims of this abhorrent crime.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 15/07/2019 16:13:07 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	4212 label Biography information for Debbie Abrahams

1134982

	registered interest
	date	26/06/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Hate Crime: Disability
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) prosecutions and (b) convictions there were for hate crimes against people with learning disabilities in (i) 2018 and (ii) 2017.
	tabling member constituency	Nottingham East
	tabling member printed	Mr Chris Leslie
	uin	269643
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2019 answer text <p>The Ministry of Justice has published information regarding prosecutions and convictions but the only hate crime offences specifically defined in legislation are ‘racially or religiously aggravated’ offences. The court outcomes for these offences can be found here:</p><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/802314/outcomes-by-offence-tool-2018.xlsx" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/802314/outcomes-by-offence-tool-2018.xlsx</a></p><p>Filter by ‘Offence’ for offences starting with ‘racially or religiously aggravated…’ and select all that appear.</p><p> </p><p>As hate crime against individuals with learning disabilities is not specifically defined in legislation, we would not be able to distinguish whether or not a particular offence was related to a learning disability. For example, a relevant case could have the offence recorded simply as ‘common assault’. The level of detail required to answer this question may be held in court records, but to be able to identify these cases we would have to access and analyse individual court records which would be of disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 02/07/2019 16:45:45 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
	tabling member	422 label Biography information for Mr Chris Leslie

964543

	registered interest
	date	03/09/2018
	answering body	Attorney General
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	hansard heading	Hate Crime: Disability
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Attorney General, what steps the CPS is taking to improve the rate of prosecution of people responsible for crimes against disabled people.
	tabling member constituency	Crawley
	tabling member printed	Henry Smith
	uin	169294
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/09/2018 answer text <p>The CPS is committed to improving prosecutions of disability hate crime. It has delivered mandated training on disability hate crime for all prosecutors, introduced a network of Hate Crime Coordinators in CPS Areas and revised its disability hate crime legal guidance. The CPS is currently working with community partners to develop further training based upon the social model of disability, aimed at removing barriers for disabled people and improving access to justice.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 10/09/2018 14:24:55 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
	tabling member	3960 label Biography information for Henry Smith

782049

	registered interest
	date	01/11/2017
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Hate Crime: Disability
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the answer by Baroness Williams of Trafford on 18 October (HL Deb, col 616), what steps they are taking to record hate crimes against people with learning difficulties and autism separately from crimes against people with other disabilities.
	tabling member printed	Lord Touhig
	uin	HL2830
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/11/2017 answer text <p>The Home Office does not currently mandate police forces to disaggregate disability hate crime.</p><p>However, forces are free to record this information locally. We are working closely with stakeholders to improve our understanding of this form of hate crime, and this work will continue to inform our policy on this matter.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 07/11/2017 16:57:49 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
	tabling member	542 label Biography information for Lord Touhig

748501

	registered interest
	date	05/07/2017
	answering body	Attorney General
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	hansard heading	Hate Crime: Disability
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Attorney General, what progress has been made on increasing the number of prosecutions for disability hate crime.
	tabling member constituency	North Swindon
	tabling member printed	Justin Tomlinson
	uin	3240
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2017 answer text <p>The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has taken a number of steps to improve its prosecution of all strands of hate crime. Specifically they have delivered mandatory face to face disability hate crime training for all prosecutors to deal more effectively with disability hate crime cases.</p><p>As a result, the CPS is prosecuting, and convicting, more defendants of disability hate crime than ever before. In 2015-16, the CPS completed 941 disability hate crime prosecutions, an increase of 275 on the previous year.</p><p>The proportion of successfully completed prosecutions with an announced and recorded sentence uplift increased to 11.9% from 5.4% the previous year.</p><p>The CPS will shortly be publishing a public policy statement on disability hate crime and a Support Guide for victims and witnesses with disabilities.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 11/07/2017 11:09:58 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
	tabling member	4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson

711040

	registered interest
	date	14/03/2017
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Hate Crime: Disability
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that those people subject to disability hate crime have the confidence to report offences.
	tabling member constituency	North Swindon
	tabling member printed	Justin Tomlinson
	uin	67912
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/03/2017 answer text <p>This Government is committed to ensuring that disabled people who have experienced hate crime have the confidence to report it.</p><p> </p><p>On 26 July last year the Government published a new Hate Crime Action Plan. This outlines the work we will do over the next four years to drive forward action against hate crime in all its forms. The action plan focuses on 5 key areas, one of which is to increase the confidence of victims to report hate crime.</p><p> </p><p>2,508 disability hate crimes were reported to the police in 2014/15 and this increased by 69% to 3,629, in 2015/16. The number of prosecutions for disability hate crimes has also increased by 41% compared with 2014/15.</p><p> </p><p>The Government have undertaken, supported and funded a number of activities to increase the confidence of disabled people to report hate crime.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 22/03/2017 14:32:22 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
	tabling member	4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson

652363

	registered interest
	date	05/12/2016
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Hate Crime: Disability
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she has taken to tackle the recorded increase in disability hate crime in the last year.
	tabling member constituency	Rotherham
	tabling member printed	Sarah Champion
	uin	56190
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/12/2016 answer text <p>The Government takes all forms of hate crime seriously. Crime that is motivated by hostility towards some fundamental part of a person’s identity is particularly corrosive and can have devastating consequences for victims and their families. We are committed to working with communities in order to keep them safe.</p><p>The number of recorded disability hate crimes rose by 44% between 2014/15 and 2015/16. There are a number of factors behind this rise, including increased reporting of disability hate crime and improved recording of such crimes by the police. We welcome these changes.</p><p>The new cross-Government Hate Crime Action Plan published on 26 July includes specific actions on disability hate crime. These include looking at current best practice in tackling disability hate crime and working with partner organisations and the police to promote safety for disabled people, making better use of third party reporting centres and raising awareness of hate crime among carers and families of disabled people to encourage reporting.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 09/12/2016 17:23:04 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
	tabling member	4267 label Biography information for Sarah Champion

595914

	registered interest
	date	07/10/2016
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Hate Crime: Disability
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many hate crimes were committed against disabled people in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
	tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
	uin	47598
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/10/2016 answer text <p>The Home Office has collected disability hate crime data from the police since 2011/12.</p><p>In 2011/12, the police recorded 1,748 disability hate crime offences, 1,911 in 2012/13, 2,006 in 2013/14 and 2,508 in 2014/15.</p><p>Further information on hate crime can be found in Hate Crimes, England and Wales,</p><p>2014/15, available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/hate-crime-england-and-wales-2014-to-2015</p><p>Data for 2015/16 are due to be published on 13 October 2016 and will be available here:</p><p>https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/hate-crime-england-and-wales-2015-to-2016</p><p>As stated by the Office for National Statistics, action taken by police forces to improve their compliance with the National Crime Recording Standard has led to improved recording of crime, especially for violence against the person offences. Together with a greater awareness of disability hate crime, and improved willingness of victims to come forward, this is likely to be a factor in the increase in disability hate crimes recorded by the police.</p><p>This Government is committed to tackling hate crime. The UK has one of the strongest legislative frameworks in the world to tackle hate crime. We are working across Government with police, (including National Community Tensions Team), the Crown Prosecution Service and community partners to send out a clear message that hate crime will not be tolerated and we will vigorously pursue and prosecute those who commit these crimes.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 12/10/2016 15:48:34 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton previous answer version 13378 answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
	tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

576877

	registered interest
	date	06/09/2016
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Hate Crime: Disability
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many hate crimes were committed against disabled people in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	45208
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/09/2016 answer text <p>The Home Office has collected disability hate crime data from the police since 2011/12.</p><p>In 2011/12, the police recorded 1,748 disability hate crime offences, 1,911 in 2012/13, 2,006 in 2013/14 and 2,508 in 2014/15.</p><p>Further information on hate crime can be found in Hate Crimes, England and Wales, 2014/15, available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/hate-crime-england-and-wales-2014-to-2015</p><p>Data for 2015/16 are due to be published in October 2016.</p><p>As stated by the Office for National Statistics, action taken by police forces to improve their compliance with the National Crime Recording Standard has led to improved recording of crime over the last year, especially for violence against the person offences. Together with a greater awareness of disability hate crime, and improved willingness of victims to come forward, this is likely to be a factor in the increase in disability hate crimes recorded by the police.</p><p>This Government is committed to tackling hate crime. The UK has one of the strongest legislative frameworks in the world to tackle hate crime. We are working across Government with police, (including National Community Tensions Team), the Crown Prosecution Service and community partners to send out a clear message that hate crime will not be tolerated and we will vigorously pursue and prosecute those who commit these crimes.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 08/09/2016 16:13:42 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon