Hate Crime: Prosecutions
Commons · Question 63145 · Tabled 26 Jun 2025 · Attorney General · Official record
Answered 4 Jul 2025
Question
Asked by Andrew Snowden
To ask the Solicitor General, how many prosecutions for hate crimes have the CPS commenced in each of the last 12 months; and how many and what proportion of these prosecutions resulted in conviction.
Answer
Answered by Lucy Rigby, 4 Jul 2025
In the year to December 2024 the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) authorised the charging of a total of 11,777 suspects in hate crime flagged cases with 87.4% of legal decisions resulting in a suspect being charged.The below table provides a breakdown of t...