Sexual Offences

(asked on 22nd April 2022) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people were (a) charged, (b) prosecuted, and (c) convicted for trespassing with intent to commit a sexual offence in each year since 2015.


Answered by
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Victoria Atkins
Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
This question was answered on 28th April 2022

The Ministry of Justice has published information on prosecutions, convictions up to December 2020, available in the following tool pivot tool:

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1063892/HO-code-tool-principal-offence-2020-revised.xlsx.

Within the pivot tables, filter for:

(Offence code: Detailed offence)

Indecent exposure

  • 08809: Exposure

88B Other miscellaneous sexual offences (Offence)

  • 08805: Administering a substance with intent to stupefy or overpower to engage in sexual activity
  • 08806: Committing an offence with intent to commit a sexual offence
  • 08807: Trespass with intent to commit a sexual offence

175 Sexual Offences- Miscellaneous (Offence)

  • 17504: Sexual activity in a public lavatory

To breakdown an offence by sex, filter for the required offence and move the ‘sex’ filter, in the pivot table field list, to the rows area.

Filter ‘year of appearance’ to 2015-20.

Figures for 2021 are due to be published 19th May 2022.

The figures given in the data tool relate to defendants for whom these offences were the principal offences for which they were dealt with. When an offender has been found guilty of two or more offences it is the offence for which the heaviest penalty is imposed.

Information on charges issued by the police is not held by this department.

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