Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether resources are being allocated to protect mosques and Muslim communities on and around 3 April as a result of letters inciting hate against Muslims and designating that date as punish a Muslim day.

The Home Office has already committed £2.4m over three years (2016/2019) to provide protective security measures to places of worship, including mosques, in England and Wales that have been subject or vulnerable to a hate crime.

In addition the Home Office committed £1m, following the Finsbury Park attack last year, to protect faith institutions which are vulnerable to attack on racial, religious or ideological grounds.

I am writing to the policing lead to reiterate Government support.

More broadly, operational decisions about the allocation of police resources are a matter for Chief Constables.