To ask Her Majesty's Government how many racially motivated crimes in England and Wales in each of the past five years (a) were recorded by the police, (b) resulted in a police caution, and (c) were prosecuted, broken down by police force. [HL1569]

The available information relates all racially or religiously aggravated offences recorded by the police. It is not possible separately to identify racially motivated offences from the recorded crime data collected by the Home Office.

The police data are based on the number of offences recorded in each financial year. Cautions and prosecutions data have been provided by the Office for Criminal Justice Reform and are based on the number of offenders. These data are published on a calendar year basis and are counts of persons by their principal offence. For these reasons the two datasets are not directly comparable.