HC Deb 14 July 1994 vol 246 cc691-2W
Ms Corston

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what support is currently provided for victims of racially motivated attacks and their families.

Mr. Peter Lloyd

Victims of racially motivated crime are given help and advice, as are other victims of crime, through the network of local victim support schemes.

Ms Corston

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will provide figures of the number of incidents recorded by the police as being racial or racially motivated for each year since 1974.

Mr. Maclean

The available information relates to reported racial incidents as defined by the Association of Chief Police Officers. Figures from 1985 are given in the table. Information prior to 1985 is not available.

Number of racial incidents reported in England and Wales
Year Number of incidents
1985 5,900
1986 6,566
1987 5,305
1988 4,383
1989 5,044
1990 6,359
1991 7,882
1992 7,734
11993–94 9,762
1This information is now collected on a financial year basis.

ACPO definition: Any incident in which it appears to the reporting or investigative officer that the complaint involves an element of racial motive, or any incidents which include allegations of racial motivation made by any person.