Religiously Aggravated Offences

(asked on 9th January 2020) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what information his Department holds on the religion of victims of religiously aggravated hated crime.


Answered by
Kit Malthouse Portrait
Kit Malthouse
This question was answered on 16th January 2020

The Home Office has collected data on the number of religious hate crimes recorded by the police in England and Wales by perceived religion of the victim on a mandatory basis since 2017/18.

The latest available data, for 2018/19, can be found in ‘Hate Crime, England and Wales, 2018/19’ which can be accessed here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/hate-crime-england-and-wales-2018-to-2019

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