Hate Crime: Disability
Commons · Question 27898 · Tabled 31 Jan 2025 · Home Office · Official record
Answered 10 Feb 2025
Question
Asked by Edward Morello
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what her Department's planned timetable is for bringing forward legislative proposals to make disability hate crime an aggravated offence.
Answer
Answered by Dame Diana Johnson, 10 Feb 2025
We have committed to ensuring parity of protection for disabled and LGBT+ people under the aggravated offences and will implement this change in an appropriate legislative vehicle in due course.The College of Policing is responsible for police training in...