Question to the Home Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government whether they will publish figures showing the number of race hate incidents reported that were football related for each of the past five years since 2020.

The Home Office publishes data on the number of football-related race hate incidents in England and Wales in the annual ‘Football-related arrests and banning orders, England and Wales’ Official Statistics release. The latest data covering the 2024 to 2025 domestic football season and can be accessed at the following link: Football-related arrests and banning orders statistics - GOV.UK

Data on the number of football-related race hate incidents for each of the last five years are available in table 11 of the accompanying data tables and are provided below:

Table 1: Matches with reported incidents of hate crime relating to race, England and Wales, 2019/20 season to 2024/25 season

The Home Office does not hold data on the number of investigations carried out into online race hate incidents related to football.