HC Deb 21 July 1989 vol 157 c401W
Mr. Cohen

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many perpetrators of racial harassment have been charged by the police(a) under section 5 of the Public Order Act 1986 and (b) under section 47 of the Offences Against the Person Act 1861, in the years 1987 and 1988, respectively.

Mr. John Patten

Information on whether prosecutions under section 5 of the Public Order Act 1986 and under section 47 of the Offences Against the Person Act 1861 were for offences which were racially motivated is not collected centrally.

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