Committee takes evidence on hate crime and asylum accommodation

20 November 2018

In a multi-inquiry hearing, the Home Affairs Committee hears from Demos, and the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, on the threat from the far right as part of their hate crime inquiry; and Local Authorities in a new inquiry examining asylum accommodation contracts.

As part of its inquiry into hate crime, the Committee will hear from representatives of think tanks, Demos and the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, on the current threat posed by the far-right in the UK.

The session is likely to cover:

Influence of fake-accounts and Russian-bots in inspiring Islamophobia and the far-right agenda
Prevalence and growth of far-right extremism in the UK
Utilisation of the internet and social media to propagate far-right ideologies and international support
Government and industry's response to countering far-right extremism both in the online space and the offline world

Witnesses

Tuesday 20 November in the Thatcher Room, Portcullis House

At 2.30pm

Alex Krasodomski-Jones, Researcher, Centre for Analysis of Social Media, Demos
Jacob Davey, Research Manager, Institute for Strategic Dialogue
Chloe Colliver, Project Manager, Institute for Strategic Dialogue

The Committee will also be taking evidence from Local Authorities on asylum accommodation contracts that are up for tender.

The session is likely to cover:

The relationship between Government and local authorities in respect of support for asylum seekers
Operation of the dispersal policy
The transition to new asylum accommodation contracts in 2019
Accommodation standards

Witnesses

At 3.15 pm

Councillor Susan Aitken, Leader of Glasgow City Council
Andy Burnham, Mayor of Greater Manchester
Councillor Roger Lawrence, Leader of the City of Wolverhampton Council
Councillor David Simmonds CBE, Deputy Leader of Hillingdon Council and Chairman of the Local Government Association's Asylum, Refugee and Migration Task Group

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