Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many cases of online child abuse were referred from the National Crime Agency to individual police forces in (a) 2014 and (b) 2015.

The National Crime Agency (NCA) disseminates intelligence and information relating to child sexual exploitation for police forces to investigate on a regular basis.

The NCA made the following number of disseminations in relation to child sexual exploitation and abuse, which includes on-line abuse, to territorial police forces in the UK:

2014 - 3664

2015 (to 30 September) - 4071