The disaggregated data below are for England and Wales only. The Police and several civil society organizations involved in monitoring hate incidents (including the Community Security Trust, Galop and Tell MAMA) exchange data on a regular basis about recorded incidents. This data sharing is governed by Information Sharing Agreements signed by the Police and each of the civil society organizations. As a result, some of the information presented below (particularly data on anti-Semitic hate crime and hate crime motivated by intolerance against Muslims) is also included in reporting by the abovementioned civil society organizations elsewhere on this page.
A consultation was launched by the College of Policing to update the Hate Crime Operational Guidance on police hate crime recording.
In April 2020, the Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Bill was introduced to the Scottish Parliament and aims to (i) update the existing laws, (ii) combine most of the relevant laws into one Bill and (iii) add to the list of groups currently protected by hate crime laws.
Hate crimes recorded in this category can include offences targeting 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 6,203 anti-religious hate crimes were recorded. 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 includes offences for which more than one perceived religion was targeted. The category consists of 432 hate crimes against other religions, 70 hate crimes against non-believers and 823 anti-religious hate crimes with no specified targeted religion, which may also include anti-Semitic, anti-Muslim or anti-Christian hate crimes.
Of this number, 15,835 hate crimes were motivated by bias based on sexual orientation and 2,540were motivated by transphobic bias.
The EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) published relevant recommendations in its 2019 Roma and Travellers Survey findings, "Roma and Travellers in six countries."
ODIHR observes that the United Kingdom has met most OSCE commitments on hate crime data collection and reporting.
Community Security Trust (CST) reported descriptive incidents as well as statistical data. Kantor Center reported only statistical data. This explains the discrepancy between the graphic above and the incidents included below.