PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Hate Crime: Ethnic Groups (16 June 2021)
Question Asked
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for what reasons her Department did not collect information on the race or ethnicity of victims of hate crime until 2021.
Asked by:
Navendu Mishra (Labour)
Asked by:
Navendu Mishra (Labour)
Answer
We introduced this data requirement following the successful experimental pilot to disaggregate religious hate crime data under the 2016-2020 Hate Crime Action Plan. Each new data requirement needs close engagement with forces to ensure data recording is accurate and consistent.
Answered by:
Victoria Atkins (Conservative)
21 June 2021
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