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Recommendation 18
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We support the proposals in the Law Commission’s hate crime review to extend aggravated hate...
Recommendation
We support the proposals in the Law Commission’s hate crime review to extend aggravated hate crime offences across all characteristics protected under existing hate crime legislation, and to reform the ‘hostility’ motivation test to better reflect the nature of some hate crimes affecting disabled people—both of which were called for in the previous Petitions Committee’s 2019 report, Online abuse and the experience of disabled people.
Government Response Summary
The government states it is carefully considering the recommendations set out in the Law Commission’s final report on Hate Crime Laws, including those to extend aggravated offences and reform the hostility motivation test, and will shortly publish a new strategy.
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Government Response
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HM Government
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We thank the Committee for its recommendation to scale up existing specialist teams and to ensure police officers are able to access the right training to identify offences and support victims of hate crime. We are carefully considering the recommendations set out in the Law Commission’s final report, ‘Hate Crime Laws,’ and will shortly publish a new strategy for tackling hate crime, setting out our commitment to stamping out these abhorrent crimes including their online elements, which cause greater harms to victims and associated neighbourhoods.