Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people in the UK were charged with offences in relation to paedophilia in the last year.
Information on charges is not held by the Ministry of Justice, responsibility for charges brought by the police lies with the Home Office.
There were 8,901 defendants proceeded against for child sexual abuse offences in 2017.
There were 7,099 people convicted and 6,861 sentenced for child sexual abuse offences in 2017.
The Ministry of Justice has published data on court outcomes relating to child sexual abuse in England and Wales up to December 2017, data up to December 2018 will be published on 16 May 2019.