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	registered interest
	date	04/12/2017
	answering body	Women and Equalities
	answering dept id	31
	answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
	answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
	hansard heading	Ethnic Groups: Harassment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Women and Equalities, what comparative assessment she has made of the difference in the reported level of in-person bullying against BAME people and the reported level against non-BAME people.
	tabling member constituency	Ogmore
	tabling member printed	Chris Elmore
	uin	117111
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/04/2018 answer text <p>The Equality Act 2010 prohibits certain forms of conduct – including harassment – in employment and the provision of goods, services and public functions. Harassment is defined as unwanted conduct related to someone’s protected characteristics and which has the purpose or effect of violating their dignity or creating an intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating or offensive environment for them. However, “bullying” is not a term used in the Act, and incidents of “bullying” are not recorded.</p><p> </p><p>The Equality Advisory and Support Service, a Government-sponsored helpline that offers free advice and support to people who feel that they have been victims of unlawful discrimination, records and makes available statistics on all the customer contacts that it receives.</p><p> </p><p>Between 1 October 2016 - when the current service provider took over running the contract - and 28 February 2018, the Service recorded 1443 customer contacts concerning harassment across all the protected characteristics covered by the Act, 310 (21%) of which were related to race.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 12/04/2018 10:29:32 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	4572 label Biography information for Chris Elmore

797353

	registered interest
	date	29/11/2017
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Harassment: Disability
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Home Secretary, what assessment she has made of the level of bullying reported against disabled people.
	tabling member constituency	Ogmore
	tabling member printed	Chris Elmore
	uin	116316
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2017 answer text <p>The Government is very clear that bullying is unwanted and offensive behaviour and should not be tolerated in any sector of our society. There is no doubt that bullying can be detrimental to the health and well-being of any person who experiences it.</p><p><br>Although the very nature of bullying means that it is often a very subjective term, which makes it hard to legislate for, the harassment provisions of the Equality Act 2010 make it clear that any ‘unwanted or prohibited conduct’ related to a protected characteristic (including disability), which violates an individual’s dignity or creates an intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating or offensive environment for them, is unlawful. Bullying behaviours may also, in some circumstances, be proscribed by the victimisation provisions of the Act.</p><p><br>The Equality Advisory and Support Service (EASS) record the number of calls they receive about harassment and victimisation of disabled people and have reported that, between 1 October 2016, when the current EASS contract started, and 31 October 2017 there were 590 contacts from disabled people about harassment or victimisation, out of a total of 11,817 disability-related calls.</p><p>In 2016/17 5,558 disability hate crimes were recorded by the police. Not all incidents of bullying will be classed as hate crimes or even reported to the police; however, there may be some instances that escalate to become disability hate crimes.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 20/12/2017 15:30:06 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	4572 label Biography information for Chris Elmore

921926

	registered interest
	date	11/06/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Domestic Abuse
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the timetable is for his Department to respond to it's consultation on the draft Domestic Violence and Abuse Bill; and what the timetable is for further steps to be taken in relation to that Bill.
	tabling member constituency	Ogmore
	tabling member printed	Chris Elmore
	uin	152261
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/06/2018 answer text <p>On 8 March we launched a 12 week public consultation on proposals for a landmark domestic abuse Bill and a supporting package of practical action to transform the response to domestic abuse. The consultation closed on 31 May. Over 3,200 responses to the consultation were received. The responses to the consultation are being considered and a draft Bill will be published later this session.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 22/06/2018 11:32:34 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	4572 label Biography information for Chris Elmore