FOI REF: FOI-2023-1496

you asked

I would like to request statistics relating to hate crimes of transgender people, and the murder of transgender people between the years 2004 and 2023.

We said

Thank you for your request.  

We are responsible for publishing statistics from the Crime Survey in England and Wales (CSEW).

We do not produce 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. Therefore, we produce hate crime estimates using a larger sample size by combining data from three survey years. 

Our most recent CSEW estimates of hate crimes within the gender identity strand can be found in Tables 7, 8 and 9 of the following Home Office publication for the three year periods ending March 2015, March 2018 and March 2020: Hate crime, England and Wales, 2019 to 2020: appendix tables.

The question was not asked on the survey prior to April 2012, so we do not hold any earlier data.

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 Home Office's latest 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 2023.

However, the data tables in the latest release do present the number of police recorded hate crimes by monitored strand from the year ending March 2012 to the year ending March 2023. This includes the transgender hate crime strand (Table 2).

The Home Office also provide the proportion of hate crimes by selected offence types and monitored hate strand in Table 8. Please note, homicide is not one of the selected offences.

For more information about this data, the Home Office can be contacted at crimeandpolicestats@homeoffice.gov.uk.