Question to the Home Office:

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

The Government is determined to tackle all forms of hate crime.

We have a robust legislative framework in place to respond to hate crimes which target race, religion, sexual orientation, disability, and transgender identity, and we back the police in taking strong action against the perpetrators of these heinous crimes.

The Government funds an online hate crime reporting portal, True Vision, designed so victims of all types of hate crime do not have to visit a police station to report. We are also continuing to fund the National Online Hate Crime Hub, which supports individual local police forces in dealing specifically with online hate crime, providing expert advice to police to support them in investigating these abhorrent offences.

The Government is carefully considering how best to strengthen the response to hate crime going forward so we can continue to tackle this offending head on.