Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Office, how much funding his Department will allocate to the Police National Online and Hate Crime Hub.

The Home Office has allocated initial funding of £200,000 for this first year of the new national online hate crime hub. The police report that a caseload of around 1,500 incident reports per year, based on a previous pilot, gives an indication of the potential caseload for the new hub, although this figure will vary based on a number of factors including proactive activity by the police to reach out to communities.