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Hate Crime

Asked by Preet Kaur GillLabour (Co-op)Home OfficeTabled Answered 19 March 2026UIN 117834

The question

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.

Answered by Sarah Jones

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 you once these discussions have concluded.

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