You asked
I would like to request the following:
- How many homophobic attacks have there been in 2017, 2018, and 2019?
- What was the nature of the attack?
- Where was the attack?
- Was the person prosecuted?
- Were any of the attacks on Drag Queens - men in drag.
- Any information you have on Drag Queens and hate crimes/ attacks.
We said
Thank you for your enquiry.
Although we publish data on the number of offences reported to and recorded by the police in England and Wales, we do not hold any information that would allow us to separately identify hate crimes which targeted individuals based on sexual orientation or offences where the victims are drag queens.
Data on hate crimes recorded by the police in the last three financial years (2016-17, 2017-18 and 2018-19) in England and Wales, broken down by strand of hate crime, have been published by the Home Office in Table 2 of their "Hate crime, England and Wales, 2018 to 2019" release, available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/hate-crime-england-and-wales-2018-to-2019.
As data on offences recorded by the police (including hate crimes) are collated by the Home Office, you may wish to try contacting them (via crimeandpolicestats@homeoffice.gov.uk) to see if they can provide the specific information you require.
We do not hold any information surrounding recorded crime. Therefore we cannot supply any information about the nature of these attacks or where these attacks took place. Court statistics relating to prosecutions are published by the Ministry of Justice. More information can be found in their Court Statistics quarterly reports. Additionally, they can be contacted at statistics.enquiries@justice.gov.uk
We do not hold any other information or statistics where we are able to separately identify drag queens.