[holding answer 14 September 2009]: The available statistics relate to racially or religiously aggravated offences recorded by the police for some specific crime categories and are given in the table. It is not possible to separately identify those of a racial nature from those of a religious nature.
Police force area Number of offences Avon and Somerset 1,148 Bedfordshire 230 British Transport Police 1,287 Cambridgeshire 402 Cheshire 424 Cleveland 288 Cumbria 188 Derbyshire 469 Devon and Cornwall 588 Dorset 302 Durham 220 Dyfed-Powys 113 Essex 871 Gloucestershire 277 Greater Manchester 3,586 Gwent 205 Hampshire 1,089 Hertfordshire 709 Humberside 374 Kent 755 Lancashire 846 Leicestershire 953 Lincolnshire 155 London, City of 57 Merseyside 1,059 Metropolitan Police 7,955 Norfolk 254 Northamptonshire 359 Northumbria 808 North Wales 300 North Yorkshire 193 Nottinghamshire 840 South Wales 610 South Yorkshire 774 Staffordshire 760 Suffolk 322 Surrey 328 Sussex 586 Thames Valley 1,350 Warwickshire 351 West Mercia 481 West Midlands 2,859 West Yorkshire 2,122 Wiltshire 207 England and Wales total 38,054 1 Includes the following racially or religiously aggravated offences: GBH without intent, ABH or other injury, harassment, public fear, alarm or distress, assault without injury and criminal damage.