To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many reported incidents of racism there have been in (a) the North East, (b) Tees Valley and (c) Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland constituency in each of the last five years. (262919)

The information requested is not available from the police recorded crime statistics collected by the Home Office. The series has the number of racially or religiously aggravated offences recorded by the police but cannot identify those which are deemed to be ‘institutionally racist’.