Hate Crime: Asians

(asked on 20th April 2021) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what her Department's policy is on the use of the term Oriental by the Metropolitan Police in reference to hate crimes against people from East and South East Asia; and whether her Department plans to review the use of that term.


Answered by
Victoria Atkins Portrait
Victoria Atkins
Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
This question was answered on 28th April 2021

From 1 April we have asked forces to use the below categories, in relation to recording the ethnicity of victims of hate crime:

Asian

Indian

Pakistani

Bangladeshi

Any Other Asian Background

Black

Black Caribbean

Black African

Any Other Black Background

Mixed

White And Black Caribbean

White And Black African

White And Asian

Any Other Mixed Background

Not Stated

Chinese and other

Chinese

Any Other Ethnic Group

White

White British

White Irish

Any Other White Background

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