evidence: Although the majority of homicide victims were white, accounting for different population sizes shows that black people had higher rates of victimisation. In the three years to year ending March 2022[footnote 24], average rates per million population were around four times higher for black victims than white victims or victims of other ethnicities. Homicide rates across all ethnic groups over the last three years increased compared with the three-year period to year ending March 2016. The homicide rate for black victims has shown the biggest increase, from 24.5 to 39.7 per million population. This compares with the rate for white victims, which increased from 8.0 to 8.9 per million population. For further information on disparity rates, please visit Homicide in England and Wales: year ending March 2022 (See Appendix table 7). [...] Between 2019/20 and 2021/22, 68% of principal suspects convicted of homicide were from the white ethnic group, followed by 14% from the black ethnic group and 15% from the other ethnic group. For each ethnic group, victims were most often associated with a principal suspect of the same ethnic group (white: 83%, black: 58%, other: 52%).