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881053

	registered interest
	date	11/04/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Hate Crime: Females
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	Whether she has plans to bring forward legislative proposals to make misogyny a hate crime.
	tabling member constituency	Battersea
	tabling member printed	Marsha De Cordova
	uin	904760
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/04/2018 answer text <p>Abuse, harassment or targeting of women is totally unacceptable and we already have robust legislation that can be used to protect women from a range of crimes. We will continue our work to protect women and girls, including pledging £100 million in dedicated funding until 2020 to tackle violence against women and girls, while our landmark draft Domestic Abuse Bill will help transform our approach to protect and support victims, and bring perpetrators to justice.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 16/04/2018 14:00:09 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	4676 label Biography information for Marsha De Cordova

1386291

	registered interest
	date	08/12/2021
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Hate Crime: Females
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has plans to classify attacks based on incel misogyny as hate crimes triggering longer sentences.
	tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
	tabling member printed	Luke Pollard
	uin	89670
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2021 answer text <p>The Law Commission’s review of hate crime laws was commissioned by the Government in 2018. This review examined the coverage and approach of existing hate crime legislation, including consideration of whether other protective characteristics, such as sex and age, should be included. The Law Commission published its final recommendations on 7 December.</p><p>We are grateful to the Law Commission for the detailed consideration it has given to its review.</p><p>The Government will consider its proposals carefully and respond to the recommendations in due course.</p> answering member constituency Redditch answering member printed Rachel Maclean question first answered 15/12/2021 16:33:01 answering member 4668 label Biography information for Rachel Maclean
	tabling member	4682 label Biography information for Luke Pollard

1228968

	registered interest
	date	28/08/2020
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Hate Crime: Females
	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 tackle misogyny and racism experienced by Muslim women.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne North
	tabling member printed	Catherine McKinnell
	uin	81895
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/09/2020 answer text <p>This government recognises the discrimination and intolerance faced by Muslim communities. We have some of the strongest legislation in the world to tackle hate crime and, where groups incite racial hatred or are engaged in racially or religiously motivated criminal activity, we would expect them to be prosecuted.</p><p>The Government has taken steps to combat anti-Muslim Hatred through supporting Tell MAMA (Measuring Anti-Muslim Attacks) with just over £2.8m between 2016 and 2020 to monitor and combat anti-Muslim hatred.</p><p>In addition, the Places of Worship protective security funding scheme, which provides security measures for mosques and other places of worship, has been allocated £3.2m for 2020-21, double what was awarded last year.</p><p>We also funded a national public awareness hate crime campaign in 2018 and 2019 which includes a specific example of anti-Muslim hatred to make clear the Government’s position that such incidents are unacceptable and are a crime.</p><p>The Home Office have also funded specific locally targeted projects including through the Building Stronger Britain Together programme tackling both the far right and perceptions of Islamophobia</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 28/09/2020 11:06:06 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	4125 label Biography information for Catherine McKinnell

1273886

	registered interest
	date	06/01/2021
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Hate Crime: Females
	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 she has taken to tackle (a) misogyny and (b) violence against women and girls.
	tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
	tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
	uin	134000
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2021 answer text <p>As part of the Hate Crime Action Plan Refresh in October 2018, we asked the Law Commission to conduct a review into the coverage and approach of hate crime legislation, including consideration of whether other protective characteristics, such as gender and age, should be included. We will respond to the review when it is complete.</p><p>Addressing Violence against Women and Girls (VAWG) remains a key priority of this Government. We will be publishing a new Tackling Violence Against Women and Girls Strategy in the Spring which will help to better target perpetrators and support victims of these crimes. To inform the new strategy, we launched a Call for Evidence on 10 December, inviting responses from the public, organisations that provide support to victims and survivors, frontline professionals, and academics.</p><p>You can contribute to our Call for Evidence here - <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/violence-against-women-and-girls-vawg-call-for-evidence" target="_blank">Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) Call for Evidence - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a></p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 15/01/2021 13:17:10 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes

1433650

	registered interest
	date	21/02/2022
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Hate Crime: Females
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will bring forward legislative proposals to classify misogyny as a hate crime.
	tabling member constituency	York Central
	tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
	uin	126728
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/02/2022 answer text <p>There are no plans to classify misogyny as a hate crime.</p><p>The Law Commission has been clear that making misogyny a hate crime could make the prosecution of sexual offences more difficult and hinder efforts to tackle hate crime more broadly. Rape Crisis, the largest sexual violence support organisation in England and Wales, has also been clear that it does not support adding sex/gender to hate crime legislation.</p><p>Alternative options to criminalise misogyny were also found to have little material impact and would not address the most harmful crimes affecting women and girls.</p> answering member constituency Redditch answering member printed Rachel Maclean question first answered 25/02/2022 15:39:10 answering member 4668 label Biography information for Rachel Maclean
	tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1006699

	registered interest
	date	13/11/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Hate Crime: Females
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they intend to classify misogyny as a hate crime; and if so, whether they intend also to classify misandry as a hate crime.
	tabling member printed	Lord Stoddart of Swindon
	uin	HL11479
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/11/2018 answer text <p>The Government has asked the Law Commission to undertake a review of the coverage and approach of current hate crime provisions, to ensure the criminal law is working effectively. This includes consideration of whether there should be additional protected characteristics such as gender. Once the Law Commission review is complete, the recommendations will be looked at in the usual way.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 27/11/2018 17:19:48 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
	tabling member	950 label Biography information for Lord Stoddart of Swindon