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

To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the Runnymede Trust report England Civil Society Submission to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, published on 14 July 2021; and what plans they have to include measures to prevent hate crimes against Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities in their next Hate Crime Action Plan.

This Government is firmly committed to delivering its reporting obligations under the International Convention on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (ICERD). We have noted the Runnymede trust's Civil Society Report to the ICERD Committee. We look forward to submitting the UK's State Report highlighting our work to combat racial disparities and discrimination and the progress we have made since our last report in 2016.

Government will publish a new hate crime strategy in due course, which will include tackling racial hate crime, to help stamp out the abhorrent crimes that harm victims and their communities. We have sought views from Gypsy, Roma and Traveller community representatives in the development of this new strategy.