HC Deb 17 May 2000 vol 350 cc169-70W
Mr. Llwyd

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many cases of racial abuse were recorded in(a) each police authority and (b) each constituency in the past five years. [121720]

Mr. Charles Clarke

Information on the number of racist incidents recorded by the police is published annually by the Home Office in "Statistics on Race and the Criminal Justice System" for each police force area. Information is not collected centrally by constituency.

It is not possible to identify which of these incidents could be described as racial abuse.