Written Question·Home Office·UIN 109099
Offences against Children: Internet
Tabled: 28 January 2026
Answered: 6 February 2026
Question
Jim Shannon
Democratic Unionist Party — Strangford
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 PhillipsOnline 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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