Written Question·Home Office·UIN 100797

Hate Crime

Tabled: 16 December 2025
Answered: 23 December 2025

Question

Sarah Pochin

Reform UKRuncorn and Helsby

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that hate crime data reported by police forces is accurate and comparable across categories of characteristic.

Answer

Mike Tapp
Hate crime has no place in our society, and the Government is committed to ensuring it is recorded accurately and addressed effectively. The accuracy and consistency of crime recording, including hate crime, is the responsibility of individual police forc...

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