You asked
Please provide statistics which break down the racial, ethnic and religious groups effected by hate crimes for the periods 2015 to 2016 and 2016 to 2017.
We said
Thank you for your request relating to hate crime.
The Home Office are responsible for publishing data on hate crimes recorded by the police. They produce an annual report ‘Hate Crime, England and Wales’, which may be of interest to you. Data for 2015/16 was published on 13 October 2016; and data for 2016/17 was published on 17 October 2017. These reports provide data on the types of offences recorded as hate crimes.
It is possible the Home Office may hold more detailed information about groups affected by hate crime, such as racial and religious groups. They can be contacted by email at: CrimeandPoliceStats@homeoffice.gsi.gov.uk.
The Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW) also asks questions about whether an incident was deemed by the victim to be a hate crime. Due to the low volume of hate crime incidents in the sample survey, the figures are not sufficiently robust to report for a single year of the CSEW. To produce hate crime estimates using a larger sample size we combine data from three survey years. This approach was last used in Hate Crime, England and Wales 2014/15 release published by the Home Office, which presents estimates for England and Wales based on a three year dataset from April 2012 to March 2015. An update of this report for the combined years April 2015 to March 2018 is due to be published on 16 October 2018. This will include a breakdown by ethnic and religious groups.
For future reference, you can email CrimeStatistics@ons.gov.uk and we will endeavour to help.