Question to the Home Office:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what is their policy concerning the recording of incidents involving the protected characteristic of sex under the Equality Act 2010 as hate crimes.
The Home Office collects and publishes statistics annually on the number of hate crime offences recorded by the police in England and Wales, broken down by five centrally monitored strands: race, religion, sexual orientation, disability and transgender identity.
Operational guidance for recording of hate crimes is set out by the College of Policing and the latest published guidance is available here:
https://www.report-it.org.uk/files/hate_crime_operational_guidance.pdf