Source · Select Committees · Women and Equalities Committee
Recommendation 7
7
Not Addressed
Collect and publish intersectional data on victims of religiously and racially aggravated hate crimes.
Recommendation
The Government should collect and publish data on the religion, ethnicity and sex of victims of both religiously and racially aggravated hate crimes to help policymakers understand the extent of anti-Muslim hate crimes and the role gender plays in such offences. The Government should work with police to improve rates of data collection on ethnicity. (Recommendation, Paragraph 57)
Government response summary AI-generated
The government recognises the importance of ensuring officers are appropriately trained to recognise, record and respond to hate crime, including offences affecting Muslim women and highlights the role of Mayors to raise awareness, but does not commit to data collection and publication.
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Government Response
Not Addressed
HM Government · verbatim extract
Not Addressed
We recognise the significance of robust data in developing proportionate, effective and evidence-led policy interventions that meaningfully support the communities we serve. The Home Office already collects and publishes a range of information on religious hate crimes and racially or religiously aggravated offences. This includes data identifying whether religious hate crime offences were targeted at Muslims, and the ethnicity of the victim in aggravated offences. Information is also collected on the sex of victims. We welcome the Committee’s recommendation on the Government working with police to improve ethnicity data collection. Home Office statisticians are working with forces to improve the collection of victim ethnicity data. Additionally, the Government is funding the BMT to monitor and report incidents, increase awareness of a hate crime, encourage victims to report incidents and facilitate support for these victims, including Muslim women and girls who are targeted.
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