To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people were charged with racially aggravated offences in each English region in each of the last five years. (109040)

The requested data are not collected centrally. Prosecutions for racially aggravated offences by local area have been included in successive annual releases of the Section 95 publication ‘Statistics on Race and the Criminal Justice System’, which are available on the Home Office website at:

http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/section951.html