Question follow-through · 60395
Hate Crime: LGBT+ People
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to tackle hate crime against LGBTQ+ people.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 16 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 18 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 23 Jun 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
16 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to tackle hate crime against LGBTQ+ people.
18 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
23 Jun 2025
Answer published
There is no excuse for violence or abuse driven by hatred and discrimination, and we support the police in taking strong action against those crimes.We have a robust legislative framework in place to respond to hate crimes, including those which target se...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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