Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking with Cabinet colleagues to help tackle hate crime against transgender people.

The Government is committed to tackling hate crime and is determined to root out hatred in all its forms.

We have committed to protect LGBT+ and disabled people by making all existing strands of hate crime an aggravated offence. We will set out next steps in due course.

The Government funds True Vision, an online hate crime reporting portal designed so that victims of all forms of hate crime do not have to visit a police station to report. We also fund the National Online Hate Crime Hub which supports local police forces in dealing with all types of online hate crime and provides expert advice to support forces in investigating these despicable offences.