Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 6:04 pm on 19 October 2021.
I hope that we all stand shoulder to shoulder with those suffering racism, but there is room for us to be doing a lot more to tackle hate crimes. According to the Government's own figures for 2020-21, there was an increase in 16 per cent in hate crimes on the previous year, and 66 per cent of those hate crimes were racist hate crimes. This is consistent with the general trend, year on year, of an increase in hate crimes in Wales, and the number has more than doubled since 2012-13.