Justin Tomlinson – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Attorney General

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Justin Tomlinson on 2016-07-20.

To ask the Attorney General, what progress he has made on increasing the number of prosecutions for disability hate crime.

Robert Buckland

In 2015/16, the CPS completed 941 prosecutions for disability hate crime, an increase of 41.3% on the previous year when it completed 666 prosecutions.

The number of convictions rose from 503 in 2014/15 to 707 in 2015/16, an increase of 40.6%.