Close announcement bar
Alert
Notice
We’re aware of an issue affecting the address finder on some forms. This is linked to a problem with an external service, which may mean you’re unable to complete your report or application at the moment. We’re monitoring the situation closely and will provide updates as soon as possible. Please try again later. We apologise for any inconvenience.
FOI 582/25 Hate crime
Date: 24/06/25
Enquiry Reference: 582- 25
I write in connection with regards to your Freedom of Information request. Below is your request and our response.
REQUEST: For a project mapping temporal/ regional hate crime data across the UK, we write to request:
- the number of racist hate crimes and/or hate incidents reported
- by month and year
- where the victim(s) comprise of the Relevant Groups (see list below), broken down by each group where possible.
And would like data for the following years, broken down by each month:
- 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 (for this year, up until the FOI response date or whatever are the most recent statistics).
FORMAT: Please provide the data in an Excel spreadsheet.
If you can’t provide a list of hate crimes by month/ year with individual details, please structure the summarised data with the following column headings:
- Month
- Year
- Number of hate crimes
- Number of hate incidents
- Ethnicity/ethnic appearance
THE RELEVANT GROUPS: We are interested in the following ‘relevant’ ESEA groups. If, like Police Scotland, you can provide us with all your hate crime data for all ethnic groups, however, please do- it makes it easier to compare trends.
THE RELEVANT GROUPS:
- Chinese
- East Asian
- Southeast Asian
- "Oriental"
- Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, Japan, Mongolia, North Korea, and South Korea, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines, Laos, Indonesia, Brunei, Burma (Myanmar), Cambodia and Timor-Leste
- Or any that had such appearance (set out above)
- Asian (less useful as we need the granularity)
Answer
Having made enquiries with the Force analyst searches were carried out for all crimes validated from 1st January 2020 to 1st June 2025 which included the racial hate qualifier/flag (QL1).
The results were filtered by any crimes/incidents which included an ethnicity of Asian Chinese. The ethnicity data we hold is not as detailed as specified in the request (by country) and data is not recorded by ESEA group.
A searched for non-crime hate incidents recorded with a racial hate flag and Ethnicity of the victim of Asian Chinese came back with a nil result.
The table below includes the volume of crimes validated in the times requested with a racial hate flag and ethnicity of the victim of Asian Chinese.
|
|
2021 |
2022 |
2023 |
2024 |
2025 |
|
A4. Asian Chinese inc Asian Br |
1 |
2 |
1 |
|
2 |
|
Jan |
|
2 |
|
|
|
|
Apr |
|
|
|
|
1 |
|
May |
|
|
|
|
1 |
|
Jul |
|
|
1 |
|
|
|
Dec |
1 |
|
|
|
|
|
A4. Asian Chinese inc Asian British |
1 |
2 |
4 |
10 |
|
|
Jan |
|
1 |
|
|
|
|
Feb |
|
1 |
|
3 |
|
|
Mar |
|
|
|
1 |
|
|
Apr |
1 |
|
|
1 |
|
|
Jul |
|
|
|
2 |
|
|
Aug |
|
|
1 |
2 |
|
|
Oct |
|
|
3 |
|
|
|
Nov |
|
|
|
1 |
|
Please note that all statistical data supplied in relation to Freedom of Information requests is a snapshot of data held at the time the request was received by the Freedom of Information office and is subject to constant change/updates.
If you are not satisfied with this response or any actions taken in dealing with your request, you have the right to request an independent internal review of your case under our review procedure. The Freedom of Information Code of Practice (see below link) states that a request for internal review should be made within 20 working days of the date on this response or 40 working days if extenuating circumstances to account for the delay can be evidenced. Public authorities are not obliged to accept internal reviews after this date.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/freedom-of-information-code-of-practice
Yours sincerely
Information Rights Decision Maker