Written Question·Home Office·UIN 109099

Offences against Children: Internet

Tabled: 28 January 2026
Answered: 6 February 2026

Question

Jim Shannon

Democratic Unionist PartyStrangford

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many online child sexual abuse offences have been recorded in England and Wales in the last 3 years.

Answer

Jess Phillips
Online child sexual abuse offences are captured in police recorded crime via an online crime flag being applied to a series of offences deemed most likely to be child sexual abuse. This includes contact sexual offences and obscene publications offences wh...

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