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Racially Aggravated Offences

Volume 479: debated on Monday 29 September 2008

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many racially-motivated crimes were recorded in each police force area in each of the last five years. (223522)

[holding answer 15 September 2008]: The available statistics relate to racially or religiously aggravated offences recorded by the police and are given in the following table. It is not possible to separately identify those of a racial nature from those of a religious nature.

Total racially or religiously aggravated offences1 recorded by the police in England and Wales, 2003-04 to 2007-08

Number

Police force area

2003-04

2004-05

2005-06

2006-07

2007-08

Avon and Somerset

1,256

1,431

1,326

1,337

1,027

Bedfordshire

207

266

339

308

292

British Transport Police

652

946

1,088

1,188

1,316

Cambridgeshire

384

398

322

351

365

Cheshire

400

438

569

557

536

Cleveland

251

288

528

464

390

Cumbria

116

186

232

219

187

Derbyshire

600

474

494

492

554

Devon and Cornwall

588

694

818

809

696

Dorset

166

254

214

291

294

Durham

138

154

258

304

245

Dyfed-Powys

126

154

118

167

125

Essex

760

807

796

922

913

Gloucestershire

167

215

283

326

264

Greater Manchester

2,864

3,203

3,398

3,677

3,637

Gwent

240

233

289

269

234

Hampshire

415

570

1,120

1,326

1,320

Hertfordshire

730

859

985

954

846

Humberside

438

488

417

655

407

Kent

480

609

798

935

858

Lancashire

1,085

1,183

1,363

1,238

1,042

Leicestershire

809

980

1,007

1,055

941

Lincolnshire

179

169

200

143

101

London, City of

60

48

75

83

73

Merseyside

943

1,061

1,420

1,423

1,100

Metropolitan Police

9,468

9,444

8,769

8,226

7,353

Norfolk

268

333

343

340

265

Northamptonshire

413

389

455

422

455

Northumbria

974

886

834

924

729

North Wales

278

331

396

356

316

North Yorkshire

54

133

205

234

172

Nottinghamshire

619

551

566

715

793

South Wales

794

735

713

555

611

South Yorkshire

259

471

1,032

1,037

927

Staffordshire

600

646

805

889

760

Suffolk

297

244

240

329

328

Surrey

482

510

845

588

305

Sussex

552

575

710

991

776

Thames Valley

1,104

1,154

1,128

1,483

1,233

Warwickshire

187

222

293

379

416

West Mercia

674

609

527

499

503

West Midlands

2,479

2,413

3,071

3,338

3,249

West Yorkshire

1,874

2,140

2,898

2,691

2,493

Wiltshire

244

220

260

253

196

England and Wales total

35,674

38,114

42,547

43,742

39,643

1 There are currently seven racially or religiously aggravated offence classifications within the recorded crime series. They are as follows: less serious wounding, harassment, assault without injury, criminal damage to a dwelling, criminal damage to a building other than a dwelling, criminal damage to a vehicle and other criminal damage.