Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate her Department has made of the number of non-crime hate incidents in each of the last five years; and how much police time was recorded in the investigation of those incidents; and if she will make a statement.

The College of Policing has recently consulted on draft revised operational guidance on hate crime, which included clarity on responding to non-crime hate incidents. The College plans to publish this in due course to support forces dealing with hate crimes and hate incidents.

The College of Policing is independent from Government and its role is clear: setting high professional standards; sharing what works best; acting as the national voice of policing; and ensuring police training and ethics is of the highest possible quality.

The Home Office collects and publishes information on the number of hate crime offences recorded by the police in England and Wales. Information is not collected on non-crime hate incidents or the investigative resource allocated to them.