Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps (a) her Department and (b) the police have taken since 2012 to improve responses to incidents of discrimination and racism during election campaigns.

The Home Office worked closely with the police at both national and local level

following the EU referendum in June 2016 to monitor any increase in hate crime and to provide reassurance to the communities most affected. Where the law is broken in

relation to elections we would expect the appropriate body to take action.