Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to (a) help to promote awareness of Tell MAMA and (b) encourage reporting of anti-Muslim incidents.

The Coalition Government is committed to building confidence and making it
easier for victims of all types of hate crime to come forward and report what
has happened to them.

We are working with key voluntary sector organisations to encourage greater
reporting of all hate crimes, for example through the use of third party
reporting services such as Tell MAMA. We are also working closely with the
police to support the development of their True Vision website, which allows
victims of hate crime to report it electronically.

We provided start-up funding for the Tell MAMA website in 2011/12, and we have
also set up the first ever cross-government working group on anti-Muslim
hatred. As part of this group, Home Office officials engage with Muslim
communities to increase awareness of hate crime against Muslim communities and
organisations.