Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to publish a hate crime action plan.

There is no excuse for violence or abuse driven by hatred and discrimination and we support the police in taking the strongest action against the perpetrators of these appalling offences.

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

The Government funds an online hate crime reporting portal called 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.