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I want to note that non-crime hate incidents form a tiny part of the non-crime demand that is placed on the police service. In the review, 33 forces were looked at and it was discovered that, last year, there were something over 7,000 non-crime hate incidents recorded by those forces—which accords with the figures that have been suggested by my noble friend and others—for the entirety of policing. That compares with over 1 million incidents of anti-social behaviour recorded by the police. Those are not crimes, either, but it was nevertheless deemed important that they were noted. It is less than 1% of that number, and the Metropolitan Police, who have now said that they will no longer investigate non-crime hate incidents, say that those incidents account for 0.05% of their overall demand.