FOI Ref: FOI/2022/3951

You asked

Please supply the number of hate crimes reported against transgender individuals from January 2010 to November 2019, broken down by year.

Please supply how many of these reports led to a charge and how many led to a conviction. Please supply how many transgender women have been murdered in comparison to cisgender women over the same.

We said

Thank you for your request.

The Office for National Statistics is responsible for publishing statistics from the Crime Survey in England and Wales (CSEW).

It is not possible to provide hate crime figures using a single year's worth of data due to the relatively low volume of hate crime incidents reported by respondents in the CSEW. To produce hate crime estimates using a larger sample size we combine data from three survey years.

As such, we are unfortunately unable to publish the data you have requested on an annual basis as it is considered personal information. Section 39 of the Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007 (SRSA) renders it an offence to disclose information held by the Statistics Board for statistical purposes that would identify an individual or a body corporate. As we are prohibited by law from publishing statistics in which individuals can be identified, we find that Section 44 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA) applies. Section 44 is an absolute exemption and no consideration of the public interest test needs to be applied. 

However, the Home Office produce an annual publication titled 'Hate Crime, England and Wales'. Our most recent CSEW estimates of hate crimes within the gender identity strand can be found in Tables 7, 8 and 9 of the Hate crime, England and Wales, 2019 to 2020: appendix tables from the combined years of 2007/08 and 2008/09 to 2017/18 to 2019/20. It is worth noting this data is limited due to small numbers in the survey and figures which limit our ability to publish reliable estimates.

The 2020 to 2021 release does not include CSEW estimates due to the suspension of the face-to-face CSEW in March 2020. For more information on the suspension of the CSEW, please see our User guide to crime statistics for England and Wales: March 2020.

Within the same Hate Crime, England and Wales releases, Home Office publish the number of hate crimes recorded by the police in England and Wales, by monitored strand, 2011/12 to 2020/21 in Bulletin table 2a of the Hate crime, England and Wales, 2020 to 2021: data tables. This includes the transgender hate crime strand. For more information The Home Office can be contacted at crimeandpolicestats@homeoffice.gov.uk.

Unfortunately, we do not hold information on prosecutions. However, the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) are primarily responsible for data on offenders, prosecutions and convictions in England and Wales only. They publish statistics on a quarterly basis which may be of use to you. If you have any questions, the MoJ can be contacted at ESD@justice.gov.uk.

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) publishes hate crime annual reports bringing together information on CPS performance in prosecuting transphobic crime. For more information the CPS can be contacted at enquiries@cps.gov.uk.

We publish Homicide in England and Wales tables however, it is not possible, at present, to identify transgender victims in current homicide statistics. The sex of a homicide victim is determined by the police force that records the crime -- a victim will either be classified as male or female.

We are working across government to develop clear harmonised standards for the collection and presentation of statistics where sex and gender are being recorded. Data on homicide is collected by the Home Office so if you have any further comments or queries about this, they may be best placed to answer them for you. They can be contacted at POCD@homeoffice.gov.uk.