Hate crime statistics published

Statistics on hate crimes and racist incidents in England and Wales recorded by the police.

• Hate crime, England and Wales, 2020 to 2021

• in year ending March 2021, there were 124,091 hate crimes recorded by the police in England and Wales
• excluding Greater Manchester Police who did not supply data for year ending March 2020 there was a 9 per cent increase compared with the previous year

• increases in police recorded hate crime in recent years have been driven by improvements in crime recording and a better identification of what constitutes a hate crime
• as in previous years, the majority of hate crimes were racially motivated, accounting for around three-quarters of such offences (74%; 85,268 offences); these types of hate crime increased by 12 per cent between year ending March 2020 and year ending March 2021