The disaggregated data below are for England and Wales only. The Police and several civil society organizations involved in monitoring hate incidents (including Community Security Trust, Galop and Tell MAMA) are on a regular basis exchanging data about the recorded incidents. This data sharing is governed by the Information Sharing Agreements signed between the Police and each of the civil society organizations. As a result, some of the information presented below as part of the official monitoring of hate crimes (particularly data on anti-Semitic hate crime and hate crime motivated by intolerance against Muslims) is also included in the reporting by the above mentioned civil society organizations elsewhere on this page.
In July 2016, the Department for Communities and Local Government, the Home Office and the Ministry of Justice published an action plan on hate crime entitled Action Against Hate: The UK Government's plan for Tackling Hate Crime.
In October, the Crown Prosecution Service published revised guidelines on prosecuting cases involving communications sent via social media, which now includes a section on hate crime to equip prosecutors to address these cases.
In August 2017, as part of its #HateCrimeMatters campaign, the Crown Prosecution Service published Public Policy Statements and Legal Guidance on the monitored strands of hate crime.
Hate crimes recorded in this category can include any group defined by race, colour, nationality or ethnic or national origin, including countries within the UK, and "Gypsy or Irish Travellers". It also includes persons targeted because they are an asylum seeker or refugee.
A total of 8,566 anti-religious hate crimes were recorded. However, information on the precise religion targeted by the perpetrator was known only in 7,446 incidents. Anti-Semitic, anti-Muslim and anti-Christian hate crime are monitored as sub-categories of anti-religious hate crime and are presented here separately. This category thus consists of 2,055 hate crimes against other religions, and 1,120 anti-religious hate crimes with no specified targeted religion, which may also include some anti-Semitic, anti-Muslim or anti-Christian hate crimes.
Of this number, 14,491 hate crimes were motivated by bias on the grounds of sexual orientation and 2,333 were motivated by transphobic bias.
ODIHR observes that the United Kingdom has met most OSCE commitments on hate crime data collection and reporting.
In addition to the descriptive incidents displayed in the tables below, this chart includes the following incidents reported as statistics: 310 anti-Semitic incidents reported by the Community Security Trust (CST); and 177 anti-Muslim incidents reported by Tell Mama.