Apr. 23 2024
Source Page: I. Universal Credit guidance April 2024 [update of previous guidance, deposited Oct 2023, DEP2023-0791]. 204 docs. II. Letter dated 15/04/2023 from Jo Churchill MP to to the Deposited Papers Clerk regarding documents for deposit in the House libraries. Incl. file list at Annex 1. 9p.Found: wounding • rape and sexual abuse • harassment or stalking that causes fear, alarm or distress • hate
Asked by: Lennon, Monica (Scottish Labour - Central Scotland)
Question
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to the findings and recommendations of LGBT Youth Scotland's Life in Scotland for LGBT Young People: Trans Report 2024.
Answered by Somerville, Shirley-Anne - Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice
The Scottish Government acknowledges this report which serves as a clear message that trans young people in Scotland are experiencing difficult and tangible challenges in their day to day lives.
Trans people continue to suffer poorer outcomes relative to the wider population, and this needs to change.
The Scottish Government are providing funding of over £1.1 million to LGBTQI+ organisations in 2024-25 to enable them to take forward a range of activities to advance equality and tackle discrimination.
We are taking forward our commitment to introduce legislation to end conversion practices in Scotland and responses to the public consultation, which closed on the 2 April, will be analysed and considered to inform the Bill the Scottish Government will introduce into Parliament. We have also funded a dedicated conversion practices helpline and are continuing to develop non-legislative measures to support victims and survivors of conversion practices.
We have published a Non-Binary Equality Action Plan to improve equality and wellbeing for non-binary people, established and funded organisations dedicated to stopping LGBTI-related bullying and discrimination, and published a new Hate Crime Strategy for Scotland, which sets out a vision for a Scotland that lives free from hatred and prejudice and where our communities are empowered, inclusive and safe.
It is essential that we continue to listen to people with lived experience and continue to strive for equality and inclusion to improve the lives of LGBTQI+ people in Scotland.
Mentions:
1: Tracey Crouch (Con - Chatham and Aylesford) Boris Johnson from running a football club—clarify that the test is defined by crimes under the Serious Crime - Speech Link
2: Sara Britcliffe (Con - Hyndburn) It brings the community together and I would hate to think of the counterfactual, where it was no longer - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: None experiences of external stressors, such as systemic discrimination, stigma, ostracisation, violence, hate - Speech Link
2: None gambling is a significant public health issue, because there is a clear tie with poverty, debt and crime—it - Speech Link
3: None we provide them with policies so that they do not have to reinvent the wheel, because men generally hate - Speech Link
Apr. 22 2024
Source Page: Scottish government spent overall on the hate crime bill: FOI releaseFound: Scottish government spent overall on the hate crime bill: FOI release
Found: summing up and sentencing remarks from a trial in which— (a) the person was a victim of a crime
Found: summing up and sentencing remarks from a trial in which— (a) the person was a victim of a crime
Asked by: Apsana Begum (Labour - Poplar and Limehouse)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the risk of the far right and racists targeting (a) Poplar and Limehouse constituency and (b) other diverse areas; and what steps he is taking to protect communities from hate (i) crimes and (ii) speech.
Answered by Laura Farris - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Ministry of Justice) (jointly with Home Office)
We have a robust legislative framework in place to respond to hate crimes which target race and religion and expect the police to fully investigate these appalling offences and work with the Crown Prosecution Service to ensure perpetrators are brought to justice. Our priority is to get more police onto our streets, cut crime, protect the public and bring more criminals to justice. We are supporting the police by providing them with the resources they need. Part of this necessitates police recruitment and training - there are now over 149,000 officers in England and Wales, which is higher than the previous peak in March 2010 before the Police Uplift Programme. Funding for the Metropolitan Police Service will be up to £3.5bn in 2024/25, an increase of up to £125.8m when compared to 2023/24. As of 30 September 2023, the Metropolitan Police Service has over 35,000 officers (35,006).
We are committed to protecting all communities from hate crime. In 2023/24, the Home Office is providing up to £50.9 million to protect faith communities. This includes £18 million through the Jewish Community Protective Security Grant, £29.4 million through the new Protective Security for Mosques scheme and a scheme for Muslim faith schools, and £3.5 million for the places of worship of other (non-Muslim and non-Jewish) faiths.
The Government continues to fund True Vision, an online hate crime reporting portal designed so that victims of all forms of hate crime do not have to visit a police station to report. We also fund the National Online Hate Crime Hub, a central capability designed to provide expert advice to support individual local police forces in dealing with online hate crime.
Mentions:
1: Ross, Douglas (Con - Highlands and Islands) I remind members that my wife is a serving officer with Police Scotland.When we opposed the Hate Crime - Speech Link
2: Yousaf, Humza (SNP - Glasgow Pollok) Once again, in that question, Douglas Ross did not mention the victims of hate crime. - Speech Link
3: Yousaf, Humza (SNP - Glasgow Pollok) crime, but for the fact that almost a quarter of hate crime reports are against police officers themselves - Speech Link
4: Ross, Douglas (Con - Highlands and Islands) We warned him that all these problems with the hate crime act would happen. - Speech Link