Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what data her Department holds on the staff time taken to (a) record and (b) investigate (i) non-crime hate incidents and (ii) suspected criminal offences in each of the last five years; what the cost of that work was; and what proportion of total (A) spending and (B) staff time was spent on such work.

The Home Office holds data on notifiable crimes recorded by the police in England and Wales including the date when they were recorded and the date when a resulting investigation has been closed.

This data is routinely published as official statistics.

The Home Office does not currently hold or collate information on the number of non-crime hate incidents recorded by police forces.