Alistair Carmichael
Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland, Liberal Democrat Spokesperson (Scotland), Liberal Democrat Spokesperson (Northern Ireland)
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the prosecution rate for homophobic hate crime detected by the Metropolitan Police was in each of the last five years.
Alan Campbell
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office) (Crime Reduction)
The information requested is not collected centrally. From the information collected on recorded crime, it is not possible to identify those offences which are homophobic hate crimes. Such crimes are not specifically defined by statute and details of the individual circumstances of offences do not feature in the recorded crime statistics. In addition, it is not possible from the recorded crime data to track individual offences through to a conclusion.
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