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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

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

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

432823

registered interest
date	26/11/2015
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 estimate she has made of the number of disability hate crime offences committed in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Greg Mulholland
uin	17800
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2015 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>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> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 01/12/2015 16:51:11 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	1540 label Biography information for Greg Mulholland

432824

registered interest
date	26/11/2015
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 disability hate crime.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Greg Mulholland
uin	17797
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/12/2015 answer text <p>The Government takes all forms of hate crime very seriously. Crime that is motivated by hostility or hatred towards the victim 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>We have announced that we will publish a new hate crime action plan next year. This will include a number of actions aimed at reducing the number of hate crimes committed against disabled people, and also improving the response to these crimes when they occur.</p><p>I, and other ministers, attended a roundtable on disability hate crime in October. This gave me the opportunity to speak to a range of people, including representatives of the Equalities and Human Rights Commission, researchers and service users. A key part of our action plan will include understanding the issues behind hate crime, and this was an important first step towards this. Officials are taking forward actions from this meeting.</p><p>The Government is currently speaking to a number of organisations and individuals to inform the next steps in developing this action plan. This includes work with the Fulfilling Potential Forum, which is led by the Office for Disability Issues within DWP and is made up of around 40 disability charities, including disabled people’s user led organisations.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 02/12/2015 13:36:34 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	1540 label Biography information for Greg Mulholland

416947

registered interest
date	07/09/2015
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 how many disability hate crimes have been reported in the United Kingdom in each year since 2010; and how many of those have been successfully prosecuted, broken down by the year of reporting.
tabling member printed	Lord Bassam of Brighton
uin	HL1867
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/09/2015 answer text <p>The Home Office has collected information on the number of disability hate crimes recorded by the police in England and Wales since 2011/12. In 2011/2012, the number recorded was 1,757, with 1,843 in 2012/13 and 1,985 in 2013/14. The Home Office does not collect prosecutions data.</p><p>Further information on hate crimes can be found at this link: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/hate-crimes-england-and-wales-2013-to-2014</p><p>(1) The College of Policing (as the professional body for policing) issues Authorised Professional Practice or ‘APP’. This is the official source of professional practice on policing and police officers and staff are expected to have regard to APP in discharging their responsibilities. Disability hate crime training is referenced throughout a number of APP issued by the College, including investigations and public order. In May 2014, the College also published specific Hate Crime Operational Guidance.</p><p>(2) CPS have created a training support package focused on disability hate crime and reflecting refreshed legal guidance on disability hate crime. This was piloted on 17 July and is currently being rolled out to all CPS Areas. The aim of the training is to provide prosecutors in CPS Areas with guidance on the key elements of prosecuting disability hate crime, resulting in greater confidence in handling cases and improved prosecution performance. The training has been mandated for all Area prosecutors and will be concluded by the end of the calendar year.</p><p>The Government is currently speaking to a number of organisations and individuals to inform the next steps in our strategy to both raise awareness and encourage reporting of disability hate crime. This includes work with the Fulfilling Potential Forum, which is led by the Office for Disability Issues within DWP and is made up of around 40 disability charities, including disabled people’s user led organisations.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 17/09/2015 13:44:17 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates attachment 1 file name Home Office Statistical Bulletin - Hate Crimes England and Wales 2013-14.pdf title HO Stats Bulletin - Hate Crimes England and Wales
tabling member	3504 label Biography information for Lord Bassam of Brighton

416948

registered interest
date	07/09/2015
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 training programmes regarding disability hate crime are available to (1) United Kingdom police forces, and (2) Crown Prosecution Service staff.
tabling member printed	Lord Bassam of Brighton
uin	HL1868
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/09/2015 answer text <p>The Home Office has collected information on the number of disability hate crimes recorded by the police in England and Wales since 2011/12. In 2011/2012, the number recorded was 1,757, with 1,843 in 2012/13 and 1,985 in 2013/14. The Home Office does not collect prosecutions data.</p><p>Further information on hate crimes can be found at this link: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/hate-crimes-england-and-wales-2013-to-2014</p><p>(1) The College of Policing (as the professional body for policing) issues Authorised Professional Practice or ‘APP’. This is the official source of professional practice on policing and police officers and staff are expected to have regard to APP in discharging their responsibilities. Disability hate crime training is referenced throughout a number of APP issued by the College, including investigations and public order. In May 2014, the College also published specific Hate Crime Operational Guidance.</p><p>(2) CPS have created a training support package focused on disability hate crime and reflecting refreshed legal guidance on disability hate crime. This was piloted on 17 July and is currently being rolled out to all CPS Areas. The aim of the training is to provide prosecutors in CPS Areas with guidance on the key elements of prosecuting disability hate crime, resulting in greater confidence in handling cases and improved prosecution performance. The training has been mandated for all Area prosecutors and will be concluded by the end of the calendar year.</p><p>The Government is currently speaking to a number of organisations and individuals to inform the next steps in our strategy to both raise awareness and encourage reporting of disability hate crime. This includes work with the Fulfilling Potential Forum, which is led by the Office for Disability Issues within DWP and is made up of around 40 disability charities, including disabled people’s user led organisations.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 17/09/2015 13:32:03 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates attachment 1 file name Home Office Statistical Bulletin - Hate Crimes England and Wales 2013-14.pdf title HO Stats Bulletin - Hate Crimes England & Wales
tabling member	3504 label Biography information for Lord Bassam of Brighton