FOI 741/25
REQUEST
For a project mapping temporal/ regional hate crime data across the UK, we write to request:
- the number of racist hate crimes and/or hate incidents reported
- by month and year
- where the victim(s) comprise of the Relevant Groups (see list below), broken down by each group where possible.
And would like data for the following years, broken down by each month:
- 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 (for this year, up until the FOI response date or whatever are the most recent statistics).
FORMAT: Please provide the data in an Excel spreadsheet.
If you can’t provide a list of hate crimes by month/ year with individual details, please structure the summarised data with the following column headings:
- Month
- Year
- Number of hate crimes
- Number of hate incidents
- Ethnicity/ethnic appearance
THE RELEVANT GROUPS: We are interested in the following ‘relevant’ ESEA groups. If, like Police Scotland, you can provide us with all your hate crime data for all ethnic groups, however, please do- it makes it easier to compare trends.
THE RELEVANT GROUPS:
- Chinese
- East Asian
- Southeast Asian
- "Oriental"
- Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, Japan, Mongolia, North Korea, and South Korea, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines, Laos, Indonesia, Brunei, Burma (Myanmar), Cambodia and Timor-Leste
- Or any that had such appearance (set out above)
- Asian (less useful as we need the granularity)
RESPONSE
A search has been conducted on our crime and incident recording system (Niche RMS) for all crimes recorded where a race hate crime filter has been applied. This search yielded 9,152 crimes for the time period 1st January 2020 up to and including 1st June 2025.
Please see attached document entitled ‘Response Data 741_25’
Please note that people who identify as Chinese may also identify as ‘Any other Asian background’.
Please also note that additional useful data may be found via the link provided below.
Hate crime, England and Wales, year ending March 2024 - GOV.UK