Hate Crime: Disability
(asked on 20th July 2016) - View Source
Question to the Attorney General:
To ask the Attorney General, what progress he has made on increasing the number of prosecutions for disability hate crime.
This question was answered on 5th September 2016
In 2015/16, the CPS completed 941 prosecutions for disability hate crime, an increase of 41.3% on the previous year when it completed 666 prosecutions.
The number of convictions rose from 503 in 2014/15 to 707 in 2015/16, an increase of 40.6%.