Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) reports of child sexual exploitation have been received and (b) successful prosecutions have taken place for child sexual abuse-related offences including imagery offences in (i) Preston constituency and (ii) the UK in each of the last three years.
The number of police recorded offences relating to child sexual exploitation in the Preston Community Safety Partnership (CSP) Area and in England and Wales, is shown in the table below in each of the last 3 years:
Year to Sep 2016 | Year to Sep 2017 | Year to Sep 2018 | |
Preston CSP Area | 120 | 130 | 248 |
England & Wales | 43,896 | 53,733 | 60,659 |
The Home Office does not hold data on the number of such offences recorded by the police elsewhere in the UK. Information on the number of prosecutions for such offences is the responsibility of the Ministry of Justice.