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<p>We condemn any attacks against people on the grounds of race, religion, sexual
orientation, disability or transgender identity. Where a crime is motivated by race
or religion it will be treated as a hate crime and the perpetrator will receive a
higher sentence. The police now record religiously based hate crimes by faith. The
figures for hate crime in 16/17 will be published in October.</p><p>The Government
is committed to tackling hate crime and we have in place a comprehensive Hate Crime
Action Plan to drive forward action against such crimes. The action plan includes
additional funding for projects to tackle hate crime at local level and to protect
places of worship from hate crime. A further £1M to protect places of worship and
religiously based community centres that are vulnerable to attack was announced on
22 June.</p>
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