Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the National Disability Strategy, published July 2021, what recent steps her Department has taken to publish a new cross-government strategy to tackle the crime and disorder that undermines the quality of life for everyone, including hate crime.

This Government is committed to tackling crime and disorder as set out in the Beating Crime Plan we published in July 2021. The plan outlines our strategy to reduce crime by protecting the law-abiding majority, swiftly bringing criminals to justice and managing offenders.

In the Beating Crime Plan we set out our commitment to tackling hate crime, all instances of which are completely unacceptable. The Government’s new Strategy for tackling hate crime will be published shortly. It will include plans for tackling disability hate crime, building on our achievements under the 2016-20 Hate Crime Action Plan.