Found: Crime and Policing Bill Written evidence submitted by Every Child Protected Against Trafficking (
Found: Children who are exploited may commit criminal offences as a direct result of their exploitation.
Asked by: Ben Obese-Jecty (Conservative - Huntingdon)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people have been convicted of child trafficking by (a) nationality and (b) arresting police force in each year since 2010.
Answered by Nicholas Dakin - Government Whip, Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury
The Ministry of Justice publishes data on convictions for a wide range of offences, including human trafficking up to and including June 2024 in the Outcomes by Offences data tool, that can be downloaded from the Criminal Justice Statistics landing page here: Criminal justice statistics - GOV.UK.
These include all human trafficking offences convicted, not just those against children. It is not possible to separately identify all such convictions that relate to children as the information on the victim age is not recorded in the Court Proceedings Database held by the Ministry of Justice.
Data held centrally does not include the nationality of the offender. The police force recorded in the Court Proceedings Database relates to the police force area associated with the court where the case was heard and not the arresting police force. The arresting police force is not held centrally in the Court Proceedings Database.
May. 07 2025
Source Page: Victims and Courts BillFound: Parental responsibility is defined in the Children Act 1989 as all the rights, duties, powers, responsibilities
Apr. 14 2025
Source Page: Teacher misconduct panel outcome: Mr Simon WoodFound: 1 (a) of the Protection of Children Act 1978.
Feb. 25 2025
Source Page: Crime and Policing Bill 2025: Impact assessmentsFound: Offences related to possession and distribution of indecent images of children do not reflect the leading
Found: We work extensively with unaccompanied children. 3.
Nov. 13 2024
Source Page: FOI releases for September 2024Found: /young persons 4 Kidnapping 67 Other violence against the person offences 10 Sexual offences 844 Rape
Asked by: Ben Obese-Jecty (Conservative - Huntingdon)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) children and (b) adults were prosecuted for the creation of indecent images of (i) children and (ii) adults using denudifying apps in 2024.
Answered by Alex Davies-Jones - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice)
The Ministry of Justice publishes data on prosecutions for a wide range of offences, including offences involving the possession, creation and distribution of indecent images of children. Data up to and including June 2024 is available in the Outcomes by Offences data tool that can be downloaded from the Criminal Justice Statistics landing page here: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/criminal-justice-statistics-quarterly.
However, data held centrally does not include whether the offence involved AI-generated images or use of nudifying apps. This information may be held in the court records but to examine individual court records would be of disproportionate cost.
In relation to images of adults, it is already a criminal offence to share, or threaten to share, a sexually explicit deepfake image of an adult without consent, but not an offence to make one. The Government made a clear manifesto commitment to ban the creation of sexually explicit deepfake images, a central aspect of our commitment to halve the prevalence of violence against women and girls within the decade. We are bringing forward legislation to honour that commitment in the Crime and Policing Bill which will be introduced later this year, making this behaviour criminal so that perpetrators can be brought to justice.
Dec. 17 2024
Source Page: Teacher misconduct panel outcome: Mr Daniel KerrFound: of children contrary to Sexual Offences Act 1978 s.1(a) 6. 1 count of Offender of any age cause/incite