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Written question asked by Ashok Kumar (Labour) on Wednesday, 26 March 2008, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 31 March 2008. It was answered by Lord Coaker (Labour) on Tuesday, 22 April 2008 on behalf of the Home Office.

Racial Violence

Question
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many racially motivated violent attacks took place in (a) England and Wales, (b) the North East, (c) the Tees Valley and (d) Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland constituency in each year since 1997.
Answer

The available information relates to recorded offences of racially or religiously aggravated less serious wounding and assault without injury and is available from 1999-2000. Figures for England and Wales and the North East are given in the following tables. The Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland constituency comes within the Middlesbrough Basic Command Unit for which figures are available from 2000-01. Data for Tees Valley are not available.

Table 1: racially or religiously aggravated offences of violence recorded by the police—2000-01 and 2001-02
1999-2000 2000-01 2001-02
Area Less serious wounding Assault without injury Less serious wounding Assault without injury Less serious wounding Assault without injury
England and Wales 2,687 4,275 3,176 4,711 3,463 5,164
North East Region 29 27 39 54 64 97
Middlesbrough BCU n/a n/a 1 4 6 1
n/a = Not available.
Note:
The National Crime Recording Standard was introduced on 1 April 2002. Because of this figures before and after that date are not directly comparable. Prior to that date assault without injury under Home Office Counting rules could include some minor injury.
Table 2: racially or religiously aggravated offences of violence recorded by the police—2002-03 to 2006-07
2002-03 2003-04 2004-05 2005-06 2006-07
Area Less serious wounding Assault without injury Less serious wounding Assault without injury Less serious wounding Assault without injury Less serious wounding Assault without injury Less serious wounding Assault without injury
England and Wales 4,415 4,602 4,930 4,161 5,426 3,866 6,107 3,945 5,619 4,350
North East Region 68 345 144 124 161 89 182 93 191 109
Middlesbrough BCU 8 7 17 17 15 8 15 19 7 20
Note:
The National Crime Recording Standard was introduced on 1 April 2002. Because of this figures before and after that date are not directly comparable. Prior to that date assault without injury under Home Office Counting rules could include some minor injury.

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
474 c1948W; 198000
Session
2007-08
Subjects
Racially aggravated offences
Link
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