Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many incidents of child grooming have been identified in each of the last five years.

Published data on police recorded crime on sexual grooming is available in the Office for National Statistics Bulletin published on 27 April 2017 as follows (Appendix Table A4): https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/bulletins/crimeinenglandandwales/yearendingdec2016

Information for the year ending March 2017 will be published on Thursday 20 July.