Question follow-through · 78

Sexual Offences: Young People

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people under the age of 21 were convicted of sexual abuse in the last 12 months.

answeredMinistry of Justice

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Ministry of Justice
Tabled
17 Jul 2024
Target answer date
22 Jul 2024
Answer
23 Jul 2024 · 6 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 17 Jul 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people under the age of 21 were convicted of sexual abuse in the last 12 months.

  2. 22 Jul 2024

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 23 Jul 2024

    Answer published

    The Ministry of Justice publishes data on convictions for a wide range of offences, including sexual offences and various ages of defendants/offenders in the Outcomes by Offence tool: December 2023. This can be accessed by navigating to the ‘Prosecutions ...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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