Written Question·Home Office·UIN 27898
Hate Crime: Disability
Tabled: 31 January 2025
Answered: 10 February 2025
Question
Edward Morello
Liberal Democrat — West Dorset
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what her Department's planned timetable is for bringing forward legislative proposals to make disability hate crime an aggravated offence.
Answer
Dame Diana JohnsonWe have committed to ensuring parity of protection for disabled and LGBT+ people under the aggravated offences and will implement this change in an appropriate legislative vehicle in due course.The College of Policing is responsible for police training in...
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