Hate Crime
Commons · Question 117834 · Tabled 4 Mar 2026 · Home Office · Official record
Answered 19 Mar 2026
Question
Asked by Preet Kaur Gill
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.
Answer
Answered by Sarah Jones, 19 Mar 2026
Home Office officials have started conversations with the Office for National Statistics to investigate the technical feasibility of linking anonymised person-level data Census data to police recorded hate crime to improve its data quality.I will write to...