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date	04/12/2017
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 and Sexuality
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 has taken to combat hate crime motivated by a victim’s sexuality or disability.
tabling member constituency	Torfaen
tabling member printed	Nick Thomas-Symonds
uin	117312
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2017 answer text <p>This Government abhors all forms of hate crime, including hate crimes motivated by a victim’s actual or perceived sexuality or disability. That is why we are taking a cross-Government approach to tackling the issues through the Hate Crime Action Plan published in July 2016.</p><p>The Government will continue to deliver against the commitments under the action plan which includes recently announced funding for seven new community-led projects, three of which focus specifically on tackling disability hate crime and one which focuses specifically on LGBT hate crime. The Home Secretary has also recently announced funding for the creation of a national online hate crime hub, improving the response to all forms of hate crime.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 11/12/2017 17:04:07 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4479 label Biography information for Nick Thomas-Symonds

800692

registered interest
date	04/12/2017
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 and Homosexuality
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many incidents have been recorded for hate crime against (a) gay and (b) disabled people in each of the last five years for which data is available.
tabling member constituency	Torfaen
tabling member printed	Nick Thomas-Symonds
uin	117313
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2017 answer text <p>The Home Office collects information on the number of hate crimes recorded by the police, by monitored strand - including sexual orientation and disability. The latest statistics are published in the ‘Hate crime, England and Wales, 2016 to 2017’ statistical bulletin, available here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/hate-crime-england-and-wales-2016-to-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/hate-crime-england-and-wales-2016-to-2017</a></p><p> </p><p>This Government is committed to tackling hate crime. The UK has a strong legislative framework 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 Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 11/12/2017 17:05:03 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4479 label Biography information for Nick Thomas-Symonds