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Racial and Religious Hatred Bill

My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Hunt of Wirral, referred to the oddity, as he put it, of taking measures against preachers of hate, on the one hand, and providing protection from incitement to religious hatred, on the other. I said that the distinction between the two points is that we are not taking these steps because of people’s religion, but because, in effect, they preach violence. That will be contained in the terrorism Bill. As the noble Lord, Lord Hunt of Wirral, knows, draft clauses on that have already been published by the Home Office on its website and the final form of the Bill will be produced shortly, when it is introduced to Parliament—I think in the Commons. I cannot say more than that at this stage.