Written Question·Home Office·UIN 101147

Offences against Children

Tabled: 17 December 2025
Answered: 12 January 2026

Question

Sarah Pochin

Reform UKRuncorn and Helsby

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if her Department will collect and publish city-specific data on the number of grooming gangs identified by police forces.

Answer

Jess Phillips
Baroness Casey’s rapid national audit into group-based child sexual exploitation and abuse set out stark findings on the scale and nature of offending by grooming gangs. This government is committed to exposing the failures that have happened across the c...

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