Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 1 December 2023 to Question 3174 on Hate crime: research, what the cost was of the external research commissioned from (a) IPSOS UK and (b) RAND Europe.
We keep our approach to hate crime under review and commission external research when necessary to supplement internal research and the international evidence base. The total cost of the different research projects commissioned from IPSOS UK and RAND Europe in relation to the relevant PQ across a number of contracts was £566,060.