Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of recent trends in transphobic hate crime and abuse.

The Home Office collects information on the number of hate crimes recorded by the police, by monitored strand - including transgender. The latest statistics are published in the ‘Hate crime, England and Wales, 2016 to 2017’ statistical bulletin, available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/hate-crime-england-and-wales-2016-to-2017
In 2016-17 there were 1,248 transgender hate crimes recorded by the police, which constituted a 45% increase on the 858 recorded in 2015-16. This increase was higher than the 29% rise for all hate crimes over the same period, with disability hate crimes being the only strand to have seen a higher rate of increase (53%)

The increase in hate crime overall is thought to reflect both a genuine rise in hate crime around the time of the EU Referendum and Westminster Bridge terrorist attack alongside improved identification of hate crime by the police, willingness of victims to come forward and an overall improvement in how police now record crime.

Stonewall’s ‘LGBT in Britain’ reports make an important contribution to the evidence base. We will analyse its findings closely in conjunction with the findings from the national LGBT survey, which received over 100,000 responses and included a number of questions on crime and safety.