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date	24/10/2016
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Hate Crime: Prosecutions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, what steps the Government is taking to increase the number of prosecutions for hate crime.
tabling member constituency	Yeovil
tabling member printed	Marcus Fysh
uin	906831
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/10/2016 answer text <p>We are committed to tackling hate crime in any form. The cross Government Hate Crime Action Plan, published in July 2016, focuses on reducing hate crime, increasing reporting and ensuring that all criminal justice partners and key stakeholders deliver the appropriate outcomes for victims.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 27/10/2016 16:25:32 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	4446 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Fysh

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registered interest
date	24/10/2016
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Hate Crime: Prosecutions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, what recent steps the Crown Prosecution Service has taken to set out its approach to prosecuting hate crime.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield Central
tabling member printed	Paul Blomfield
uin	906832
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/10/2016 answer text <p>We are committed to tackling hate crime in any form. The cross Government Hate Crime Action Plan, published in July 2016, focuses on reducing hate crime, increasing reporting and ensuring that all criminal justice partners and key stakeholders deliver the appropriate outcomes for victims.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 27/10/2016 16:24:30 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	4058 label Biography information for Paul Blomfield

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date	08/07/2016
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Hate Crime: Prosecutions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, under what legislation prosecutions are brought against perpetrators of hate crime and racist abuse.
tabling member constituency	Gedling
tabling member printed	Vernon Coaker
uin	42267
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2016 answer text <p>Hate crimes are criminal behaviour and may be prosecuted in England and Wales using the full range of criminal offences. Sections 29 to 32 of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 set out racially and religiously aggravated offences covering wounding, assault, damage, harassment (including stalking) and threatening/abusive behaviour which carry higher sentences than equivalent non-aggravated offences. Sections 18 to 23 of the Public Order Act 1986 contain offences of stirring up racial hatred and sections 29B to 29G contain offences of stirring up hatred on grounds of religion or sexual orientation. There is also an offence of racialist chanting at football matches in section 3 of the Football Offences Act 1991.</p><p> </p><p>Sections 145 and 146 of the Criminal Justice Act 2003 make it an aggravating factor for the purposes of sentencing if at the time of committing the offence, or immediately before, the offender demonstrated hostility towards the victim on the basis of their race, religion, disability, sexual orientation or transgender identity or that the offence was motivated by hostility towards persons who had that characteristic. Under paragraph 5(2)(g) of Schedule 21 to the 2003 Act., murder motivated by hostility on the grounds of any of these characteristics attracts a life sentence with a 30 year starting point for the minimum term.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 15/07/2016 13:03:10 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	360 label Biography information for Lord Coaker