Question follow-through · 56558

Disability: Hate Crime

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to help prevent (a) hate crime and (b) harassment towards people with hidden disabilities.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body
Home Office
Tabled
2 Jun 2025
Target answer date
4 Jun 2025
Answer
10 Jun 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 2 Jun 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to help prevent (a) hate crime and (b) harassment towards people with hidden disabilities.

  2. 4 Jun 2025

    Target answer date

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  3. 10 Jun 2025

    Answer published

    We are clear that all hate crimes, including those targeting disability, are completely unacceptable. There must be zero tolerance for every form of hate crime in Britain and we back the police in taking strong action against the perpetrators of these app...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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