Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many incidents of Islamophobic hate crime took place in (a) South Yorkshire and (b) Yorkshire and the Humber in 2019.

The Home Office collects data on the number of religious hate crimes recorded by the police in England and Wales by perceived religion of the victim.

The latest available data, for 2018/19, can be found in ‘Hate Crime, England and Wales, 2018/19’ which can be accessed here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/hate-crime-england-and-wales-2018-to-2019

The number of religious hate crimes for 2018/19, where the perceived religion of the victim was Jewish or Muslim, recorded by South Yorkshire Police and for the Yorkshire and Humber region are shown in the table.