Select committee: Home Affairs Committee

Hate crime and its violent consequences inquiry

Closed Opened 29 Jun 2016 Closed 3 May 2017

Home Affairs Committee Inquiry on parliament.uk ↗

Inquiry scope (the committee's words)

The Home Affairs Committee has strongly criticised social media companies for failing to take down and take sufficiently seriously illegal content – saying they are "shamefully far" from taking sufficient action to tackle hate and dangerous content on their sites. The Home Affairs Committee carried out an inquiry into hate crime and its consequences. This includes hate crime motivated by extremism and actions carried out by fixated individuals ("lone wolves").

Where it stands

The inquiry is closed, opened 29 June 2016.

The committee has published 1 report, most recently 14th Report - Hate crime: abuse, hate and extremism online on 1 May 2017.

The government's response

No government response is linked to this report.

Reports

14th Report - Hate crime: abuse, hate and extremism online1 May 2017

All reports

Evidence

6 oral evidence sessionsLatest 21 March 2017

All evidence

Recent activity

14th Report - Hate crime: abuse, hate and extremism online1 May 2017, Report published
Oral evidence session21 March 2017, Oral evidence
Letter from the Chair to Peter Barron, Vice-President, Communications and Public Affairs, Google Europe, the Middle East and Africa, regarding hate crime evidence, 17 March 201717 March 2017, Correspondence

Reports

1 report

14th Report - Hate crime: abuse, hate and extremism online

HC No.: HC 609
Published: 1 May 2017
Items: 0
Government response: No government response is linked to this report.

Oral evidence sessions

6 sessions

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Date	Session and witnesses	Source
21 Mar 2017	Oral evidence session No witnesses recorded	View ↗
14 Mar 2017	Oral evidence session No witnesses recorded	View ↗
21 Feb 2017	Oral evidence session No witnesses recorded	View ↗
10 Jan 2017	Oral evidence session No witnesses recorded	View ↗
13 Dec 2016	Oral evidence session No witnesses recorded	View ↗
15 Nov 2016	Oral evidence session No witnesses recorded	View ↗

Correspondence

1 letter

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Published	Direction	Letter
17 Mar 2017	To committee	Letter from the Chair to Peter Barron, Vice-President, Communications and Public Affairs, Google Europe, the Middle East and Africa, regarding hate crime evidence, 17 March 2017