Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the proportion of crime committed online in each of the last three years; and what proportion of reported online crime over that period resulted in someone being charged in each police force area.

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) publish statistics on the proportion of police recorded crime in England and Wales each quarter in their official statistics.

This can be found in Table F11 of ONS’ Crime in England and Wales: Other Related Tables (available at https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/datasets/crimeinenglandandwalesotherrelatedtables).

Data on the proportion of such crimes that result in a charge is not currently available.