Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether he plans to publish a Hate Crime Action Plan.

We will not be publishing a new Hate Crime Strategy because the Government is focussed on improving the police response to all crime. This approach represents the best use of public money, and the Government remains committed to continuing to protect all communities from crime. We expect the police to investigate these abhorrent offences and make sure the cowards who commit them feel the full force of the law.

Our absolute priority is to get more police onto our streets, cut crime, protect the public and bring more criminals to justice. We are supporting police by providing them with the resources they need. This has included the recruitment of 20,000 additional police officers by March 2023.