Official Statistics

Pre-release access list for: Hate crime, England and Wales, year ending March 2025

Published 9 October 2025

Applies to England and Wales

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Colleagues given access to finalised publication, embargoed, for information (24 hours in advance of publication)

In addition to the Chief Statistician and staff in the Crime Analysis Unit in the Home Office Analysis and Insight Directorate responsible for the production and quality assurance of these statistics, the following persons were given pre-release access to these statistics 24 hours in advance of release:

Home Office

  • Home Secretary
  • Minister for Policing and Crime Prevention
  • Minister for Safeguarding and Violence Against Women and Girls
  • Lords Minister
  • Permanent Secretary
  • Second Permanent Secretary
  • Special Advisers
  • Director General, Public Safety Group
  • Director of Policing
  • Director of Home Office Analysis and Insight
  • Chief Scientific Adviser
  • Head of Police Powers Unit
  • Head of Prevent Counter Radicalisation Enablers Unit
  • Head of Homeland Security - Protect and Prepare
  • Communication Officers, Crime Desk (4)
  • Hate crime policy advisers (3)

In addition, Private Secretaries in the Ministers’ and Special Advisers’ Private Offices will have access to pre-release figures for handling arrangements.

Pre-release access was also given to the following persons from outside the Home Office 24 hours in advance of release. This also includes Private Secretaries in the Ministers’ and Special Advisers’ Private Offices:

Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

  • Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government
  • Lords Minister for Faith, Communities and Resettlement
  • Special Advisers
  • Hate crime policy advisers (3)
  • Communications Officers (2)
  • Analyst (1)

Number 10

  • Prime Minister
  • Private Secretary to the Prime Minister, Home Affairs
  • Special Adviser
  • Senior Policy Adviser
  • Lead Data Scientist, Justice and Home Affairs
  • Communications Officers (2)

Welsh Assembly Government

  • Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Trefnydd and Chief Whip
  • Hate crime policy advisers (2)
  • Analysts (2)

National Policing Chiefs’ Council (NPCC)

  • National Policing Lead, Hate Crime
  • Communications Officer
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