Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment she has made of the prevalence of racially or religiously aggravated abuse of emergency workers within private dwellings.

Following the feedback we have received from police stakeholders, clauses 107 to 109 of the Crime and Policing Bill introduces two new offences aimed at protecting emergency workers with from abuse in a private welling. This will include racially or religiously aggravated abuse towards an emergency worker.

This measure seeks to ensure the full protection of the law follows emergency workers wherever their duties take them, including behind closed doors.