Yasmin Qureshi – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Yasmin Qureshi on 2014-06-17.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many sexual abuse cases involving children there have been in (a) Bolton, (b) Lancashire, (c) England, (d) Scotland and (e) Wales in each of the last five years.

Norman Baker

Home Office Statistics does not collect information on sexual abuse cases
involving children.

While the Home Office does hold data for offences covered by the Sexual
Offences Act 2003 (which may cover some sexual abuse offences), we do not hold
data on how many cases there are.

The Department for Education collects and publishes information on the numbers
of children referred to and assessed by children’s social services in England.
This includes statistics at local authority level on the number of children who
are subject of a child protection plan by category of abuse, including sexual
abuse.