Homophobia: Hate Crime

(asked on 12th June 2019) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps his Department has taken to reduce homophobic hate crime.


Answered by
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Victoria Atkins
Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
This question was answered on 21st June 2019

In October 2018 the Government published Action Against Hate: the Government’s plan for tackling hate crime two years on.

The Action Plan includes a number of commitments that are addressing all forms of hate crime, including a review of hate crime legislation by the Law Commission which commenced earlier this year, a public awareness campaign which has run twice, and the current Online Harms White Paper consultation.

There are also a number of specific commitments addressing homophobic hate crime, which have been informed by the Government’s 2018 LGBT Ac-tion Plan. These include: the Crown Prosecution Service working with partners to improve the recording and monitoring of equalities data for LGBT victims of hate crime and reviewing and refreshing its LGBT Hate Crime Schools Pack; further Government Equalities Office funding for anti-bullying interventions in schools from March 2019 to March 2020; support from the Home Office to the police to improve training in responding to victims; multiple Home Office funded projects aimed at tackling homophobic hate crime; and continued engagement with LBGT stakeholders.

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