Lord Bassam of Brighton

This Government is committed to tackling hate crime in all its forms, including race.

The table below shows the number of convictions and prosecutions by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) for defendants flagged with a racial hate crime monitoring flag for the five financial years from 1 April 2020 to 31 March 2025. In the last year alone, prosecutions have increased by 16%.

The CPS defines racial hate crime as any incident which is perceived, by the victim or any other person, to be motivated by a hostility or prejudice based on a person’s ethnicity or perceived ethnicity.

The volumes reported above for the financial year 2020/21 reflect the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, including court closures from mid-March to the end of June 2020 and the subsequent recovery period. Caution should therefore be exercised in making comparisons with previous or later years.

DCMS and Historic England, as our statutory advisers on heritage, regularly discuss sites and places we know to be interested in UNESCO World Heritage status, and have previously met and written to representatives from UK Cluniac sites.

With the large number of UK World Heritage Sites and our commitment to supporting UNESCO’s ambition for a more globally balanced and representative World Heritage List, the UK Government does not currently have plans to consider additional sites for nomination to UNESCO, beyond those already included on the UK’s Tentative List.

No recent formal assessments have been made by Historic England of sites for inclusion on the UK’s Tentative List. Applications to the 2022/23 Tentative List Review were assessed by an independent expert panel and the Government response was published in July 2023.

DCMS and Historic England, as our statutory advisers on heritage, regularly discuss sites and places we know to be interested in UNESCO World Heritage status, and have previously met and written to representatives from UK Cluniac sites.

With the large number of UK World Heritage Sites and our commitment to supporting UNESCO’s ambition for a more globally balanced and representative World Heritage List, the UK Government does not currently have plans to consider additional sites for nomination to UNESCO, beyond those already included on the UK’s Tentative List.

No recent formal assessments have been made by Historic England of sites for inclusion on the UK’s Tentative List. Applications to the 2022/23 Tentative List Review were assessed by an independent expert panel and the Government response was published in July 2023.

DCMS and Historic England, as our statutory advisers on heritage, regularly discuss sites and places we know to be interested in UNESCO World Heritage status, and have previously met and written to representatives from UK Cluniac sites.

With the large number of UK World Heritage Sites and our commitment to supporting UNESCO’s ambition for a more globally balanced and representative World Heritage List, the UK Government does not currently have plans to consider additional sites for nomination to UNESCO, beyond those already included on the UK’s Tentative List.

No recent formal assessments have been made by Historic England of sites for inclusion on the UK’s Tentative List. Applications to the 2022/23 Tentative List Review were assessed by an independent expert panel and the Government response was published in July 2023.

DCMS and Historic England, as our statutory advisers on heritage, regularly discuss sites and places we know to be interested in UNESCO World Heritage status, and have previously met and written to representatives from UK Cluniac sites.

With the large number of UK World Heritage Sites and our commitment to supporting UNESCO’s ambition for a more globally balanced and representative World Heritage List, the UK Government does not currently have plans to consider additional sites for nomination to UNESCO, beyond those already included on the UK’s Tentative List.

No recent formal assessments have been made by Historic England of sites for inclusion on the UK’s Tentative List. Applications to the 2022/23 Tentative List Review were assessed by an independent expert panel and the Government response was published in July 2023.

I recognise the important contribution that Cluniac sites make to our country’s heritage - many of which are already well protected, such as the Grade I Listed Ruins of Lewes Priory amongst others included on the National Heritage List for England.

DCMS and Historic England have had discussions about Cluniac sites and the European Federation and the importance of these places receiving the recognition they deserve. I am pleased to see the network of Cluniac Sites in Europe, which includes sites in the UK, already has international recognition, being designated a Cultural Route of the Council of Europe in 2005.

With the large number of existing UK World Heritage Sites and our commitment to supporting UNESCO’s ambition for a more globally balanced, representative World Heritage List, the UK Government does not currently have any plans to consider additional sites for nomination to UNESCO, beyond those already included on the UK’s Tentative List.

When engineering work takes place, it is the responsibility of the train operators to ensure the provision of rail replacement bus services, via their contracted suppliers.

My Department does not hold the information on these costs at a granular level.

The Home Office publishes official statistics on hate crimes recorded by the police in England and Wales. Information on race hate crimes for the last five years can be found here: Hate crime, England and Wales, year ending March 2025 - GOV.UK

The Home Office publishes data on the number of football-related race hate incidents in England and Wales in the annual ‘Football-related arrests and banning orders, England and Wales’ Official Statistics release. The latest data covering the 2024 to 2025 domestic football season and can be accessed at the following link: Football-related arrests and banning orders statistics - GOV.UK

Data on the number of football-related race hate incidents for each of the last five years are available in table 11 of the accompanying data tables and are provided below:

Table 1: Matches with reported incidents of hate crime relating to race, England and Wales, 2019/20 season to 2024/25 season

The Home Office does not hold data on the number of investigations carried out into online race hate incidents related to football.

The Home Office publishes data on the number of football-related race hate incidents in England and Wales in the annual ‘Football-related arrests and banning orders, England and Wales’ Official Statistics release. The latest data covering the 2024 to 2025 domestic football season and can be accessed at the following link: Football-related arrests and banning orders statistics - GOV.UK

Data on the number of football-related race hate incidents for each of the last five years are available in table 11 of the accompanying data tables and are provided below:

Table 1: Matches with reported incidents of hate crime relating to race, England and Wales, 2019/20 season to 2024/25 season

The Home Office does not hold data on the number of investigations carried out into online race hate incidents related to football.