Written Question·Home Office·UIN 18334
Sexual Offences: Victims
Tabled: 13 July 2026
Answered: 21 July 2026
Question
Dr Scott Arthur
Labour — Edinburgh South West
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many woman and girls she estimates have been victims of grooming gangs; and what methodology she uses to calculate that number.
Answer
Sarah JonesThe true scale of group-based child sexual exploitation remains unknown because of under-reporting, under-identification, and variations in data collection and analysis. However, data from the Centre for Expertise on Child Sexual Abuse shows that 15% of g...
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