Question to the Home Office:

To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the statement by Baroness Williams of Trafford on 17 March (HL Deb, col 371), that “on an experimental basis” they “will ask police forces to identify and record any crimes of violence against the person, including stalking and harassment, as well as sexual offences where the victim perceives it to have been motivated by a hostility based on their sex”, whether the police will record the sex of the victim on the basis of the victim’s legal sex or of their self-identified sex.

The Home Office is discussing this request with the police in the near future, following which further details about the data collection will be made available.