Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the year on year percentage change in recorded cyber-dependent crime was in each territorial police force area in England and Wales in each of the last five years.

The Home Office collects information from police forces on the number of police recorded offences that have been committed (in full or in part) online. This covers both cyber-enabled and cyber-dependent crime; these data cannot be broken down further.

Online crime figures are published for England and Wales as experimental statistics in the ONS ‘Crime in England and Wales’ quarterly bulletins: https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/datasets/crimeinenglandandwalesexperimentaltables (Table E4).

Recording online crime became mandatory from April 2015 therefore data prior to this are not available.