Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when the Government plans to convene the ministerial seminar on hate on the internet referred to in Action Against Hate: The UK Government's plan for tackling hate crime, published in July 2016; and which Government departments will be consulted prior to that seminar on which victims' groups, stakeholders and industry representatives will be invited to attend.

The ministerial seminar on the internet referred to in Action Against Hate: The UK Government's plan for tackling hate crime, published in July 2016 will be held before the end of the year. Officials, from the Home Office, the Department for Communities and Local Government, the Department for Culture Media and Sports, Department for Education, the Ministry of Justice and criminal justice agencies are already consulting on the content and form of the proposed seminar.