Offences against Children

(asked on 18th March 2019) - View Source

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.


Answered by
Nick Hurd Portrait
Nick Hurd
This question was answered on 26th March 2019

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.

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