Crown Prosecution Service: Anti-Muslim Hostility
The question
To ask the Attorney General, pursuant to the answer of 7 July 2026, to Question HL1337, on Anti-Muslim Hostility, whether the Crown Prosecution Service has adopted the definition.
Answered by Attorney General's Office
Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) prosecutors make their decisions independently of the police, the government and other external parties. Their duty is to apply the criminal law of England & Wales as agreed by Parliament, to ensure the right person is prosecuted for the right offence and to bring offenders to justice wherever possible.
On 9 March 2026 the UK Government adopted its non-statutory definition of anti-Muslim hostility across all central government departments. The CPS is a non-ministerial department, and CPS employees are civil servants and subject to the same central rules and policies. They may have regard to the definition, alongside other sources of information, in understanding the experience of Muslim communities in this country.
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