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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom regularly reports hate crime data to ODIHR. 

Authorities collaborate closely with civil society, including through Information Sharing Agreements concluded between the police and the Community Security Trust (CST), Galop and Tell MAMA, which enable the exchange of recorded data about incidents. The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) regularly convenes an external consultation group (ECG) on hate crime, whose members include community organizations, victim advocacy groups, academics with relevant expertise and others. ECG members scrutinize CPS policies and practices, and suggest where improvements can be made.   

In Northern Ireland, the Department of Justice chairs a multi-agency Hate Crime Delivery Group (HCDG) to identify strategic, cross-governmental priorities and develop new approaches to dealing with hate crime. The group meets quarterly and includes representatives of government departments, criminal justice agencies and victim groups. The Department of Justice and Northern Ireland Policing Board jointly fund Policing and Community Safety Partnerships (PCSPs) to engage and consult with the local community, and work with local partners to identify and prioritize local community safety and policing issues and develop initiatives and projects to address these. 

In Scotland, there is the Hate Crime Strategic Partnership Group (SPG), which brings together criminal justice agencies and civil society organizations with hate crime expertise.  The SPG helped ensure a multi-agency strategic approach was taken to the develop the Hate Crime Strategy for Scotland. The Hate Crime and Public Order Act (Scotland) Act 2021 became an Act of Parliament on 23 April 2021. The Act was commenced on 1 April 2024. 

The UK's College of Policing has developed guidelines for police on responding to hate crime, and the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has issued relevant guidance for prosecutors and published public policy statements on particular hate crime strands. 

Police and prosecution data, which cover the reporting period from April to March of the following year, are regularly published by the relevant criminal justice agencies of England and Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland. 

Hate crime data collection in the United Kingdom
Support for hate crime victims in the United Kingdom
Hate crime capacity building in the United Kingdom
The United Kingdom's hate crime legislation
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Download the 2011 hate crime report for United Kingdom

OFFICIAL DATA REPORTED BY STATES

Year Hate crimes recorded by police Prosecuted Sentenced
2023 148,735 Not available Not available
2022 147,447 296 (NI) 1,107
2021 158,018 5,984 932
2020 125,848 16,824 9,510
2019 106,672 14,058 9,340
2018 111,076 18,055 10,817
2017 95,552 14,535 11,987
2016 80,763 20,321 Not available
2015 62518 21300 13103
2014 52853 4872 549
2013 47986 19689 12353
2012 47676 19205 10794
2011 50688 19802 12651
2010 53946 19342 11405
2009 58692 13030 10690

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KEY OBSERVATION

No information is available.

Incidents reported by civil society, international organizations and the Holy See

Reports

Anti-Semitic hate crime

The Community Security Trust reported 92 physical assaults, including two involving serious injury which were also reported by the Kantor Center. The Community Security Trust reported a further 63 incidents of damage and desecration of Jewish property, including against 14 synagogues, 26 homes and four cemeteries, and 29 threats. The incidents mainly took place in London and Greater Manchester.

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Anti-Muslim hate crime

Engage reported 13 physical assaults, two of which involved serious bodily injury; two threats; three cases of arson, one of which was against a mosque; one bomb threat against a mosque; and 12 cases of criminal damage, three of which were against a mosque and one against a cemetery. Engage also reported ten cases of graffiti, seven of which were on a mosque; two cases where a pig’s head was left outside a mosque; one theft; one threat; and one case of harassment.

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Anti-LGBTI hate crime

The Gender Identity Research and Education Society (GIRES) reported one physical assault against a transgender person on a bus. Transgender Europe (TGEU) reported one murder of a transgender person; four physical assaults against transgender people, including one at a bus stop; one sexual assault; one physical assault that was prosecuted as a hate crime; and a series of physical assaults against a transgender child.

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Developments

Anti-Semitic hate crime

The Community Security Trust published A Guide to Fighting Hate Crime that sets out how to monitor and report incidents of hate crime and work with the police to improve responses. It is aimed at minority groups and potential victims of hate crime.

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Anti-Muslim hate crime

Faith Matters set up the Measuring Anti-Muslim Attacks (MAMA) project, which enables people from across England to report any form of anti-Muslim abuse via telephone, e-mail, SMS, Facebook or Twitter. The purpose of the project is to collect information about anti-Muslim incidents and enable local police forces and social support services to target their resources.

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