Crimes of Violence: Gender Recognition
(asked on 19th February 2021) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether guidance has been issued to police forces on recording data when a transwoman is arrested for a violent or sexual offence.
This question was answered on 1st March 2021
The Home Office does not issue guidance on the recording of sex or gender to police forces.
It is down to individual police forces and the National Police Chiefs’ Council and the College for policing to make decisions on how this information is captured.