Oral Question·Home Office
“What recent estimate she has made of the number of asylum applications pending initial decision.”
Tabled: 11 January 2022Answered: 17 January 2022
Asked by
Afzal Khan
Labour — Manchester Rusholme
Answering Minister
the Secretary of State for the Home Department
Answer from Hansard
Yvette Cooper
My hon. Friend is right. That sort of graffiti and serious hate crime divides communities and needs to be taken seriously by police across the country. It is one of the reasons we are strengthening the law to give the police stronger powers to prevent intimidating protests around not just synagogues but mosques.