Question follow-through · 48402
Hate Crime: Prosecutions
To ask the Solicitor General, how many people have been prosecuted for hate crimes in the last 12 months.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Attorney General
- Tabled
- 28 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 30 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 6 May 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
28 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Solicitor General, how many people have been prosecuted for hate crimes in the last 12 months.
30 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
6 May 2025
Answer published
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) prosecutes hate crimes in England and Wales. In the year to December 2024, in England and Wales the CPS prosecuted 14,657 defendants for offences flagged as hate crimes with a charge rate of 87.4%, and a conviction rate...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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