Found: For example, our teams now play a significant role in tackling hate crime, neighbourhood disputes

Found: I wanted to hear, from your point of view, how you are capturing information on the rise in race-hate

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the risk of the far right and racists targeting (a) Poplar and Limehouse constituency and (b) other diverse areas; and what steps he is taking to protect communities from hate (i) crimes and (ii) speech.

Answered by Laura Farris - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Ministry of Justice) (jointly with Home Office)

We have a robust legislative framework in place to respond to hate crimes which target race and religion and expect the police to fully investigate these appalling offences and work with the Crown Prosecution Service to ensure perpetrators are brought to justice. Our priority is to get more police onto our streets, cut crime, protect the public and bring more criminals to justice. We are supporting the police by providing them with the resources they need. Part of this necessitates police recruitment and training - there are now over 149,000 officers in England and Wales, which is higher than the previous peak in March 2010 before the Police Uplift Programme. Funding for the Metropolitan Police Service will be up to £3.5bn in 2024/25, an increase of up to £125.8m when compared to 2023/24. As of 30 September 2023, the Metropolitan Police Service has over 35,000 officers (35,006).

We are committed to protecting all communities from hate crime. In 2023/24, the Home Office is providing up to £50.9 million to protect faith communities. This includes £18 million through the Jewish Community Protective Security Grant, £29.4 million through the new Protective Security for Mosques scheme and a scheme for Muslim faith schools, and £3.5 million for the places of worship of other (non-Muslim and non-Jewish) faiths.

The Government continues to fund 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, a central capability designed to provide expert advice to support individual local police forces in dealing with online hate crime.

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when the terms and conditions of the next round of the Jewish Community Protective Security Grant will be announced; and if he will take steps to ensure that there is no gap in the provision of funding from that grant.

Answered by Tom Tugendhat - Minister of State (Home Office) (Security)

The safety and security of the Jewish community is of the utmost importance to the Government. In light of the Israel/Hamas conflict and its impact on domestic hate crime, the Chancellor’s Autumn Statement confirmed that protective security funding for the Jewish community will be maintained at £18 million in 2024/25. In February 2024, in response to reports of increased incidents of antisemitism in the UK, the Prime Minister announced that CST will receive the same level of funding each year to 2027/28 (totalling £54 million for 2025-2028).

The Community Security Trust will continue to manage the grant on behalf of the Home Office, providing protective security measures (such as guarding, CCTV and alarm systems) at Jewish schools, colleges, nurseries, and other Jewish community sites, as well as a number of synagogues.

Found: if you are a close relative bereaved by a criminal offence, a victim (1) of domestic abuse, hate

Found: if you are a close relative bereaved by a criminal offence, a victim (1) of domestic abuse, hate

Found: ....... .................... 7 Hate Crime Legal Definition ‐ Section 28 Crime and Disorder Act 1998

Found: • disabled people feel comfortable and safe using public transport – this includes being free from hate

Found: Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Act: factsheet

Found: the last few weeks with some of the deliberate misinformation we have witnessed in relation to the Hate

Found: Implementation of the Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Act 2021: Justice Secretary statement

Found: associated changes) will be introduced from 1 April 2024, to reflect the offences included within the Hate

Found: Budget to promote Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Act: FOI release