Hate Crime
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many a) arrests and b) convictions for hate crimes there have been in England and Wales in each year since 1998.
Answered by Sarah Jones
Arrests data
The data is not held by the Home Office.
The Home Office collects and publishes data on arrests in England and Wales as part of the ‘Police Powers and Procedures’ statistical series, available here: Police powers and procedures England and Wales statistics - GOV.UK
However, data is collected by broader offence group, for example ‘Violence against the person’ or ‘Public order offences’, therefore data specifically on arrests for hate crimes is not available.
Convictions data
The Ministry of Justice publishes data on convictions for a large range of offences at criminal courts in England and Wales in the Outcomes by Offences data tool, that can be downloaded from the Criminal Justice Statistics landing page here: Criminal Justice Statistics
Convictions for selected racial and religiously aggravated crimes can be identified by filtering on the HO offence code. Other offences contained within the Outcomes by Offences data tool may be related to hate crimes, including different strands of hate crimes, but are not identifiable from data held centrally.
CPS performance data which includes convictions data pertaining to hate crime flagged offences is available here CPS data summary Quarter 3 2025-2026 | The Crown Prosecution Service
The published offence-level data reflects the offence wording as set out in legislation. The published volumes will not include all racially or religiously motivated offences. In addition, other aggravating factors which contribute to the commissioning of an offence are not identifiable from the published MOJ convictions data.
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