PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Hate Crime: Crime Prevention (4 March 2020)

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps the Government is taking to tackle (a) antisemitism and (b) other hate crimes in (i) Bury South constituency and (ii) the UK.

Asked by:
Christian Wakeford (Labour)

All hatred including antisemitism, is completely unacceptable and has no place in our society, which is why we’re taking a strong lead in tackling it in all its forms.

We recognise that there has been an increase in reported religiously motivated hate crime incidents across the country.

We are also aware that Greater Manchester had the highest?number of antisemitic incidents outside Greater London over the last 10 years (2008-2018) according to the?Community Security Trust,?who are one of our key partners in tackling antisemitism and the main body reporting on the number of incidents each year.

That is why?we became the first country in the world to adopt the working definition of antisemitism as set by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance.?We?are?making sure the police record hate crimes disaggregated by faith?and our refreshed Hate Crime Action Plan reaffirms our commitment to combating antisemitism and our support for Jewish communities. We?also are providing?£14 million?this?year, and provided over £65 million to date, for the Protective Security Grant to protect Jewish schools and?community buildings.

We have committed?just over £1.5 million for projects to tackle racially and religiously motivated hatred from 2018 to 2020, and have just launched a new Faith, Race and Hate Crime Grant Scheme to promote integration and tackle hate crime, including antisemitism. We have also committed £200,000 of Home Office funding for a new national police hub to tackle the emerging threat of online hate crime.? The hub went live in January 2018.

Answered by:
Luke Hall (Conservative)
13 March 2020