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.
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