Religious Hatred: Prosecutions

(asked on 2nd June 2020) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask Her Majesty's Government how many cases involving anti-Semitism or Islamophobia were prosecuted in UK courts in (1) 1980, (2) 2000, and (3) 2015.


Answered by
Lord Keen of Elie Portrait
Lord Keen of Elie
Shadow Minister (Justice)
This question was answered on 16th June 2020

The Ministry of Justice has published information on prosecutions in England and Wales for racially or religiously aggravated offences, however to identify which of these, or wider hate crime offences involved anti-Semitism or Islamophobia would require a manual search of court records which would be of disproportionate cost.

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