More should be done to curb articles "demonising" the Muslim community to help improve the relationships between Britain's roughly 2.7 million Muslims and other faith groups in the United Kingdom, a Labour peer has urged.

Labour peer Lord Patel of Bradford called on the government to work with the media to stop them "publishing demonising articles" holding whole communities responsible for the actions of a "handful of terrorists."

Lord Patel's comments come after a report from Teeside University this week found that there had been a sharp rise in anti-Muslim hate crimes in England and Wales since the murder of soldier Lee Rigby last year.

The report found that there had been 734 self-reported incidents over a 10 month period between 2013 and 2014, including 23 cases of assault, 13 cases involving extreme violence and 56 attacks on mosques.

Government spokesperson Baroness Warsi told peers that the government was working with the media to try and improve the situation, during the oral questions session on 8 July 2014.

The Government's cross party working group on anti-Muslim hatred, announced in the government's revised action plan on hate crime in May, was working with editors to ensure that headlines on UK Muslims "reflected the truth" and were not "sensationalised."