Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what information her Department holds on the change in the number of hate crime incidents since the onset of the covid-19 outbreak.
The Home Office collects and publishes data on the number of hate crimes recorded by the police in England and Wales on an annual basis.
The next scheduled release of such data is on 13 October and this will include an analysis of changes in levels of hate crime since the onset of the covid-19 outbreak.