Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps his Department is taking to help protect Muslim citizens from verbal and physical attack and abuse on religious grounds.

The Government is absolutely committed to tackling hate crime against all individuals and communities. As part of the Government’s refreshed Hate Crime Action Plan published in 2018, we continue to support Tell MAMA, a service which spreads awareness about Anti-Muslim hate crime and Islamophobia, and provides victim support, amongst a number of other initiatives. Verbal and physical attacks and abuse on religious grounds are hate crimes which should be reported to the police. We are confident that reports will be dealt with appropriately.