PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Hate Crime: China (21 April 2020)

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of racially-motivated hate crimes recorded by the police in each week of 2020 to date were against people of Chinese ethnicity.

Asked by:
Christine Jardine (Liberal Democrat)

The Home Office collects and publishes statistics annually on the number of racially motivated hate crime offences recorded by the police in England and Wales. Information is not routinely collected on the ethnicity of victims.

The latest ‘Hate Crime, England and Wales’ statistical bulletin is available here:

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

Answered by:
Kit Malthouse (Conservative)
28 April 2020