Question follow-through · 85264
Hate Crime: Victims
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has asked the Office for National Statistics to use anonymised person-level data from the 2021 census to help improve the accuracy of data on the (a) ethnicity and (b) religion
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 27 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 29 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 5 Nov 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Justice and policing
- Racially Aggravated Offences and Religiously Aggravated Offences · 8 Jan 2026
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Recorded timeline
27 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has asked the Office for National Statistics to use anonymised person-level data from the 2021 census to help improve the accuracy of data on the (a) ethnicity and (b) religion
29 Oct 2025
Target answer date
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5 Nov 2025
Answer published
The Home Office publishes official statistics on hate crimes recorded by the police in England and Wales. This includes information on religious hate crimes, by targeted religion, including rates per population. These are calculated using population data ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Hate Crime
4 Mar 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to question 85264 answered on 5 November 2025, whether her Department has had recent discussions with the Office for National Statistics on the linking of Census data to hate crime data.