Question follow-through · 104187

Racially Aggravated Offences and Religiously Aggravated Offences

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for what reasons police forces reported to the Home Office the ethnicity of victims of racially and religiously aggravated crimes in 40 per cent of cases in the year ending 31 March 2025.

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Home Office
Tabled
8 Jan 2026
Target answer date
12 Jan 2026
Answer
19 Jan 2026 · 11 calendar days after tabling

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  1. 8 Jan 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for what reasons police forces reported to the Home Office the ethnicity of victims of racially and religiously aggravated crimes in 40 per cent of cases in the year ending 31 March 2025.

  2. 12 Jan 2026

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  3. 19 Jan 2026

    Answer published

    Police forces are required to send ethnicity data for victims of racially or religiously aggravated offences to the Home Office under the Annual Data Requirement (ADR). The Home Office publishes these data annually, with the figures based on self-defined ...

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