Question to the Attorney General:

To ask the Attorney General, how many (a) men and (b) women were prosecuted for offences covering sexual activity with a child in each of the last 10 years.

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) maintains a central record of the number of prosecuted defendants, flagged as child abuse and whose principal offence was categorised as a sexual offence. These data can be further disaggregated by the gender of defendants.

During each of the last nine years, where figures are available, the number of completed prosecutions of men and women charged with sexual offences involving child abuse, is as follows:

Data Source: CPS Management Information System – Data for 2004-2005 is not collated centrally and could only be provided at a disproportionate cost