Written Question·Attorney General·UIN 113822

Hate Crime: Religion

Tabled: 20 February 2026
Answered: 2 March 2026

Question

Mohammad Yasin

LabourBedford

To ask the Solicitor General, what steps she is taking to ensure that the Crown Prosecution Service’s guidance on religiously aggravated and religion-based hate crime offences is applied; and what assessment she has made of the potential impact of CPS dec

Answer

Ellie Reeves
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) issues legal guidance on prosecuting racist and religious hate crime, available on their website. To support effective application of this guidance, all new CPS prosecutors receive mandatory training on hate crime, incl...

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