Part of the debate – in the House of Lords at 2:56 pm on 27 October 2025.
Lord Hanson of Flint
The Minister of State, Home Department
2:56,
27 October 2025
Again, I say to the noble Lord that there is a review. My Right Honourable Friend the former Home Secretary, Yvette Cooper, commissioned that review in December 2024 because, self-evidently, the non-crime hate incidents regime was not working effectively. Noble Lords who were in the House for the Second Reading of the Crime and Policing Bill will have heard the noble Lord, Lord Herbert, who chairs the College of Policing, examining that issue and saying that he would bring that review forward. There are a range of things that we need to do in the review. We should not lose sight of the fact that valuable information is gained by people reporting non-crime hate incidents, but equally we should not use it to pursue events which are fruitless when police should be focusing on real crimes.
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