What analysis has the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime and/or the Metropolitan Police Service conducted to investigate the regular spikes in homophobic hate crime in the summer months? If no analysis has yet been conducted, will you commit to doing so?

The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) uses all available intelligence to identify hotspots for all crime types to inform how best to use its resources. However, there are challenges in undertaking the kind of analysis you suggest, primarily due to the fact that the only way that LGBT+ targeted hate crimes can be identified on the MPS crime recording system, is if the appropriate flag is attached to the entry. The circumstances of each crime would then need to be examined individually.

As an alternative approach to keeping LGBT+ Londoners safe in the summer and beyond, MOPAC is convening a roundtable meeting, bringing together local police, Local Authority community safety officers and LGBT+ community representatives, including the owners and managers of LGBT+ venues. The meeting will initially focus on the three boroughs that reported the highest rates of LGBT+ hate crime last year. It will explore local solutions and seek to reassure those communities that the MPS and I take LGBT+ hate crime very seriously.