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Hate Crime

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to bring forward legislation to make all hate crime an aggravated offence.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body
Home Office
Tabled
8 Jan 2025
Target answer date
13 Jan 2025
Answer
15 Jan 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 8 Jan 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to bring forward legislation to make all hate crime an aggravated offence.

  2. 13 Jan 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 15 Jan 2025

    Answer published

    This Government is determined to tackle all forms of hate crime. We have committed to changing hate crime legislation to bring parity of protection for LGBT+ and disabled people under the aggravated offences and we are currently considering how best to im...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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