Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to enable local and regional profiles ensure transparency on the representation and treatment of people of different ethnicities in the criminal justice system.

To ensure transparency of police use of powers, the Home Office collect and publish statistics on the use of police powers in the annual "Police powers and procedure" statistical release. This includes data on those arrested for notifiable offences and stopped and searched, including by ethnicity, and broken down by police force area. This is available online at: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/police-powers-and-procedures-england-and-wales

In addition, the Ministry of Justice already publishes a range of data from across the CJS with an ethnicity breakdown. This information can be found via the following link: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/ethnicity-and-the-criminal-justice-system-statistics-2020/ethnicity-and-the-criminal-justice-system-2020