Written Question·Home Office·UIN 117834

Hate Crime

Tabled: 4 March 2026
Answered: 19 March 2026

Question

Preet Kaur Gill

Labour (Co-op)Birmingham Edgbaston

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.

Answer

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...

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