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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom regularly reports hate crime data to ODIHR. The UK has a Hate Crime Action Plan for England and Wales. The UK Government collaborates closely with civil society, including through Information Sharing Agreements concluded with the Community Security Trust (CST) and Tell MAMA.

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 HCDG monitors hate crime trends and delivers an action plan to strengthen inter-agency communication and co-ordination to address hate crime across Northern Ireland. The group meets quarterly and includes representatives of government departments, criminal justice agencies and victim groups.

The Scottish Minister for Equalities and Older People has convened a Hate Crime Strategic Partnership Group (SPG), which brings together criminal justice agencies and civil society organizations with hate crime expertise. 

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. The CPS also holds regular meetings with community members and groups.

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
Access more information at the Legislation Online website Legislationline TANDIS Access more information at the Tolerance and Non-Discrimination Information System (TANDIS) website

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OFFICIAL DATA

Year Hate crimes recorded by police Prosecuted Sentenced
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

About 2018 Data

    Police data represent hate crimes recorded in England and Wales (103,379), Northern Ireland (961) and Scotland (6,736). More than a half of hate crimes recorded by police represent "public order offences", some of which fall outside of the scope of the OSCE's definition of hate crime. The total numbers of police recorded hate crimes by bias motivation presented below are higher than this overall number because of cases involving more than one bias. Prosecution data breakdown is as follows: 611 in Northern Ireland, 12,828 in England and Wales and 4,616 in Scotland. The number of convictions is for England and Wales only.

Hate crime recorded by police

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.

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National developments

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.

KEY OBSERVATION

ODIHR observes that the United Kingdom has met most OSCE commitments on hate crime data collection and reporting.

INCIDENTS REPORTED BY OTHER SOURCES

Racist and xenophobic hate crime

Date Type of incident Source Description
2018-10 Violent attacks against people
Tell MAMA
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2018-12 Violent attacks against people
UNHCR
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2018-05 Violent attacks against people
OSCE Office for Democratic Institution and Human Rights
Show info
2018-06 Attacks against property
SETA
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2018 Violent attacks against people
Tell MAMA
Show info

Anti-Semitic hate crime

Date Type of incident Source Description
2018 Attacks against property
Community Security Trust (CST)
Show info
2018-12 Violent attacks against people
Community Security Trust (CST)
Show info
2018-03 Violent attacks against people
Community Security Trust (CST)
Show info
2018-05 Violent attacks against people
Community Security Trust (CST)
Show info
2018-04 Violent attacks against people
Community Security Trust (CST)
Show info
2018-05 Violent attacks against people
Community Security Trust (CST)
Show info
2018-05 Violent attacks against people
Community Security Trust (CST)
Show info
2018-08 Violent attacks against people
Community Security Trust (CST)
Show info
2018-10 Violent attacks against people
Community Security Trust (CST)
Show info
2018-05 Attacks against property
Community Security Trust (CST)
Show info
2018-01 Attacks against property
Community Security Trust (CST)
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2018-02 Attacks against property
Community Security Trust (CST)
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2018 Attacks against property
Community Security Trust (CST)
Show info
2018-10 Attacks against property
Community Security Trust (CST)
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2018-09 Attacks against property
Community Security Trust (CST)
Show info
2018-06 Threats
Community Security Trust (CST)
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2018-10 Threats
Community Security Trust (CST)
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2018 Threats
Community Security Trust (CST)
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2018-11 Attacks against property
Community Security Trust (CST)
Show info
2018-08 Violent attacks against people
Community Security Trust (CST)
Show info
2018-09 Threats
Community Security Trust (CST)
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2018 Attacks against property
Community Security Trust (CST)
Show info
2018-10 Attacks against property
Community Security Trust (CST)
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2018-04 Attacks against property
Community Security Trust (CST)
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2018-09 Attacks against property
Community Security Trust (CST)
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2018-12 Attacks against property
Community Security Trust (CST)
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2018-02 Violent attacks against people
Community Security Trust (CST)
Show info
2018-05 Threats
Community Security Trust (CST)
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2018-02 Violent attacks against people
Community Security Trust (CST)
Show info
2018-09 Threats
Community Security Trust (CST)
Show info

Anti-Muslim hate crime

Date Type of incident Source Description
2018-10 Violent attacks against people
Tell MAMA
Show info
2018-03 Threats
Tell MAMA
Show info
2018-04 Threats
Tell MAMA
Show info
2018-10 Attacks against property
SETA
Show info
2018-11 Attacks against property
SETA
Show info
2018-11 Attacks against property
SETA
Show info
2018-04 Attacks against property
SETA
Show info
2018-08 Attacks against property
SETA
Show info
2018-06 Attacks against property
SETA
Show info
2018-12 Attacks against property
SETA
Show info
2018-09 Violent attacks against people
SETA
Show info
2018-05 Attacks against property
SETA
Show info
2018-06 Attacks against property
SETA
Show info
2018-07 Attacks against property
SETA
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2018-03 Attacks against property
SETA
Show info
2018 Threats
Tell MAMA
Show info
2018 Violent attacks against people
Tell MAMA
Show info
2018-02 Violent attacks against people
Tell MAMA
Show info
2018 Threats
Galop
Show info

Anti-Christian hate crime

Date Type of incident Source Description
2018-01 Violent attacks against people
Jehovah's Witnesses
Show info
2018-09 Attacks against property
OIDAC
Show info
2018-09 Attacks against property
OIDAC
Show info
2018-08 Attacks against property
OIDAC
Show info
2018-07 Violent attacks against people
OIDAC
Show info
2018-04 Attacks against property
OIDAC
Show info
2018-03 Attacks against property
OIDAC
Show info
2018-01 Threats
OIDAC
Show info
2018-08 Attacks against property
OIDAC
Show info
2018-02 Attacks against property
Holy See
Show info
2018-03 Attacks against property
Holy See
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2018-03 Attacks against property
Holy See
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2018-08 Attacks against property
Holy See
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2018-12 Attacks against property
Holy See
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2018-01 Attacks against property
Holy See
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2018-12 Attacks against property
Holy See
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2018-12 Attacks against property
Holy See
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2018-12 Attacks against property
Holy See
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2018-08 Attacks against property
OIDAC
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2018-08 Attacks against property
OIDAC
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2018-11 Attacks against property
OIDAC
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Other hate crime based on religion or belief

Date Type of incident Source Description
2018-08 Attacks against property
OIDAC
Show info
2018-04 Attacks against property
OIDAC
Show info
2018-06 Attacks against property
SETA
Show info

Anti-LGBTI hate crime

Date Type of incident Source Description
2018 Threats
Galop
Show info
2018 Threats
Galop
Show info
2018 Violent attacks against people
Galop
Show info
2018 Violent attacks against people
Galop
Show info

INTERNATIONAL REPORTS

No information is available.
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