Racist Attacks

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department – in the House of Commons am 12:00 am ar 7 Tachwedd 1991.

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Photo of Harry Cohen Harry Cohen , Leyton 12:00, 7 Tachwedd 1991

Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that it has been calculated that there is one racial attack every 30 minutes and that the savagery of such attacks has increased? With racism on the increase in Europe and in this country because of high unemployment, is not there a danger that there could be yet more racial assaults in Britain? Have not calls for action by organisations such as the Society for Black Lawyers been met by Government intransigence? Is not it time to have a specific crime of racial harassment, as I proposed in my 1985 Racial Harassment Bill?