Official Statistics

Pre-release access list for: Hate crime, England and Wales, year ending March 2024

Published 10 October 2024

Applies to England and Wales

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, Fire 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 General, Safer Streets
  • Director of Crime
  • Director of Home Office Analysis and Insight
  • Chief Scientific Adviser
  • Communication Officers, Crime Desk (3)
  • Hate crime policy advisers (6)

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

  • Deputy Prime Minister
  • Lords Minister for Faith, Communities and Resettlement
  • Special Advisers
  • Hate crime policy advisers (4)
  • Communications Officers (2)
  • Analyst (1)

Number 10

  • Prime Minister
  • Private Secretary to the Prime Minister, Home Affairs
  • Special Adviser
  • Senior Briefing Officer
  • Policy Adviser
  • Lead Data Scientist, Justice and Home Affairs
  • Communications Officer

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