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Racially Aggravated Offences and Religiously Aggravated Offences

Commons · Question 104187 · Tabled 8 Jan 2026 · Home Office · Official record

Answered 19 Jan 2026

Question

Asked by Preet Kaur Gill

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.

Answer

Answered by Sarah Jones, 19 Jan 2026

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 ...