Question to the Home Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government whether they hold statistics collected by the Metropolitan Police and British Transport Police on racially and religiously aggravated crimes; and if so, whether there has been increase in such crimes over the past five years.

Official statistics on the five racially or religiously aggravated offences defined in law are published on a quarterly basis. These data are quality assured with the forces prior to publication and released at the Police Force Area level in Home Office Open Data Tables.

The latest statistics show that in the year ending June 2025, the Metropolitan Police Service recorded 17,690, and the British Transport Police recorded 3,525 racially or religiously aggravated offences. For both forces, these were the highest annual totals recorded, with a spike seen in these offences during the disorder in August 2024 following the Southport murders.