Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many hate crime (a) allegations and (b) arrests were made in (i) 2016, (ii) 2017, (ii) 2018, (iii) 2019, (iv) 2020 and (v) 2021.
The Home Office collects and publishes information on the number of hate crimes recorded by the police in England and Wales. Information is not held on the number of hate crime allegations or arrests.
Information on the number of hate crime offences recorded by the police can be found in the Home Office statistical bulletin ‘Hate crime, England and Wales, 2020 to 2021’