Hate Crime and Theft: Prosecutions

(asked on 15th July 2020) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask Her Majesty's Government how many (1) hate incidents, and (2) cases of burglary and theft, have been recorded by the police in each of the last five years; and how many of the cases of burglary and theft have resulted in a successful prosecution.


Answered by
Baroness Williams of Trafford Portrait
Baroness Williams of Trafford
Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms (HM Household) (Chief Whip, House of Lords)
This question was answered on 29th July 2020

The Home Office routinely publishes data on the number of hate crimes burglary and theft offences recorded by the police in England and Wales.

This is published as part of the ‘Police recorded crime and outcomes open data tables’, which can be found here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-recorded-crime-open-data-tables

The Ministry of Justice is responsible for prosecutions data and publishes information on the number of prosecutions, and the number of these which resulted in a conviction by offence types, including theft and burglary. These can be found here:

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/888344/HO-code-tool-principal-offence-2019.xlsx

Information on the number of hate crimes that have been prosecuted are published by the Crown Prosecution Service and can be found here:

https://www.cps.gov.uk/cps/publication/hate-crime-data

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