Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people accused of sexual offences involving children have been (a) investigated, (b) charged and (c) convicted in each of the last five years.

The Home Office does not centrally collect information on the number of people investigated by the police for offences recorded by the police. Additionally, the police recorded crime data that the Home Office does collect are based on the number of offences recorded, not the number of offenders.

The Ministry of Justice hold data on the number of defendants proceeded against at magistrates’ courts and found guilty at all courts of sexual offences against children, in England and Wales. The available information, for 2010 to 2014, is given in the table