Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps his Department is taking to combat hate crime directed at the UK’s Latin American communities.

In the Hate Crime Action Plan Refresh we restated our commitment to working with the police to combat all forms of hate crime, including racially motivated hate crime such as that directed at Latin American communities. We fund True Vision, the online hate crime reporting portal, and encourage anyone who has witnessed or been a victim of hate crime to report it to their local police force or to True Vision. We have also asked the Law Commission to undertake a review of the coverage and approach of current hate crime legislative provisions to explore how to make current legislation more effective.