Tom Pursglove – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Tom Pursglove on 2015-10-30.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many historic crimes will feature in this year’s crime figures.

Mike Penning

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) are responsible for crime statistics. Any historical crime that is brought to the attention of and recorded by the police will be included in the quarterly statistics for the period it was recorded in.

The Home Office (via the Home Office Data Hub) collects limited information on the date of offence for some crime types and some forces. For example, for sexual offences, the Home Office was able to supply data for the ONS to use in their quarterly Crime in England and Wales publications to highlight the impact of Operation Yewtree and the large number of historical offences that were reported to the police.

The Home Office is also unable to provide prior information of statistics in upcoming publications.