Question to the Attorney General:

To ask the Attorney General, what steps the Government is taking to ensure that the Crown Prosecution Service has adequate resources to tackle crimes against gay and disabled people.

Tackling hate crime is a priority for the CPS and for wider government and the CPS is committed to allocating sufficient resource to tackle hate crime across all monitored strands. The CPS has resourced a network of Hate Crime Coordinators in each of its Areas, acting as a central point of contact for specialist advice and providing oversight of hate crime cases.

In 2016-17, disability hate crime performance included the highest ever volume of completed prosecutions at 1,009, with a conviction rate of 79.3%. There were also 1,375 completed prosecutions for homophobic hate crime, with a conviction rate of 83.2%.