Asked by: Nick Thomas-Symonds (Labour - Torfaen)
Question to the Attorney General:
To ask the Attorney General, how many incidents of hate crime resulted in convictions in (a) 2016 and (b) 2017.
Answered by Jeremy Wright
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) maintains a central record of the number of defendants flagged as committing hate crime offences that were prosecuted and convicted through its Case Management System.
The table below shows the volume and proportion of hate crime prosecutions and convictions during each of the last three years.
- | 2014 - 15 | 2015 - 16 | 2016 - 17 | |||
- | Volume | % | Volume | % | Volume | % |
Convictions | 12,220 | 82.9% | 12,846 | 83.2% | 12,072 | 83.4% |
Unsuccessful | 2,518 | 17.1% | 2,596 | 16.8% | 2,408 | 16.6% |
Total | 14,738 |
| 15,442 |
| 14,480 |
|
Data Source: Case Management Information System | ||||||
The CPS does not hold a record of the number of reported incidents of hate crimes. Such information is recorded by the 43 police forces. The data reported in the table above shows prosecutions completed by the CPS after receipt of the case papers from the police.
Asked by: Nick Thomas-Symonds (Labour - Torfaen)
Question to the Attorney General:
To ask the Attorney General, what steps the Government is taking to ensure that the Crown Prosecution Service has adequate resources to tackle crimes against gay and disabled people.
Answered by Jeremy Wright
Tackling hate crime is a priority for the CPS and for wider government and the CPS is committed to allocating sufficient resource to tackle hate crime across all monitored strands. The CPS has resourced a network of Hate Crime Coordinators in each of its Areas, acting as a central point of contact for specialist advice and providing oversight of hate crime cases.
In 2016-17, disability hate crime performance included the highest ever volume of completed prosecutions at 1,009, with a conviction rate of 79.3%. There were also 1,375 completed prosecutions for homophobic hate crime, with a conviction rate of 83.2%.