Home Office written question – answered at on 20 June 2018.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps the Government is taking to reduce the level of hate crime towards LGBT+ people.
The 2016 Hate Crime Action Plan set out a cross-Government strategy to tackle hate crime, including hate crime motivated by hostility towards an individual’s sexual orientation or transgender identity. We will be refreshing the action plan later this year, considering further commitments with key partners including the Government Equalities Office in the light of the forthcoming LGBT Action Plan
Examples of recent actions helping to tackle hate crime against LGBT people are: £900,000 for local projects to tackle hate crime in communities including 3 projects focused on LGBT hate crime; funding for the National Police Chiefs’ Council to establish a national online hate crime hub; and commissioning Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services to carry out a thematic hate crime inspection.
In addition, the Home Office has worked in partnership with Kick It Out, football’s equality and inclusion organisation and True Vision, the police hate crime reporting portal, to release a series of informative and engaging resources that raise awareness of homophobic, biphobic and transphobic (HBT) discrimination within football stadia.
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