Hate Crime: LGBT People

(asked on 16th January 2020) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many instances of (a) serious violence, (b) hate crime, (c) malicious communications were recorded targeting the LGBT+ community in each of the last 24 months.


Answered by
Kit Malthouse Portrait
Kit Malthouse
This question was answered on 3rd February 2020

The Home Office does not hold all the information on the sexual orientation of victims of the offences listed in the question.

However, the Home Office does hold information of number of offences perceived to be hate crimes by sexual orientation for selected offence groups which are routinely released as official statistics with the most recently published found here:

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/839172/hate-crime-1819-hosb2419.pdf

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