Non-crime Hate Incidents
Commons · Question 63146 · Tabled 26 Jun 2025 · Attorney General · Official record
Answered 4 Jul 2025
Question
Asked by Andrew Snowden
To ask the Solicitor General, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of the recording of non-crime hate incidents on the sentencing of individuals in future criminal proceedings.
Answer
Answered by Lucy Rigby, 4 Jul 2025
All factual matters material to a criminal sentence must be admitted by the offender or proven in a court to the criminal standard using admissible evidence. By definition, the recording of a previous incident as “non-crime” is unlikely to meet that stand...