§ Mr. ClappisonTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what research his Department has(a) commissioned and (b) evaluated into the incidence of assaults and other offences motivated by hostility based on the victim's membership of a religious group. [56837]
§ Mr. BoatengNo research of this type has been commissioned or evaluated.
We will, however, shortly be commissioning research into the nature and extent of religious discrimination in England and Wales. This may reveal information about religious hostility and the forms which it takes.