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 committing an offence with intent to commit a sexual offence in (i) 2015, (ii) 2016, (iii) 2017, (iv) 2018, (v) 2019, (vi) 2020 and (vii) 2021.
The Ministry of Justice has published information on prosecutions, convictions up to December 2020, available in the following tool pivot tool:
Within the pivot tables, filter for:
(Offence code: Detailed offence)
Indecent exposure
88B Other miscellaneous sexual offences (Offence)
175 Sexual Offences- Miscellaneous (Offence)
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.