Hate Crime: Prosecutions
(asked on 11th June 2025) - View Source
Question to the Attorney General:
To ask the Solicitor General, how many people have been prosecuted for hate crime in the last 12 months.
This question was answered on 16th June 2025
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) prosecutes hate crimes in England and Wales.
In the year to December 2024, in England and Wales the CPS prosecuted 14,657 defendants for offences flagged as hate crimes with a charge rate of 87.4%, and a conviction rate of 86.1%.
Data for Q4 2024-2025 will be published on the CPS website (CPS quarterly data summaries | The Crown Prosecution Service) in due course.