Question follow-through · 21679

Offences against Children: Convictions

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many foreign nationals have been convicted for grooming.

answeredMinistry of Justice

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Ministry of Justice
Tabled
3 Jan 2025
Target answer date
8 Jan 2025
Answer
8 Jan 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 3 Jan 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many foreign nationals have been convicted for grooming.

  2. 8 Jan 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 8 Jan 2025

    Answer published

    The Ministry of Justice publishes data on convictions for a wide range of offences, including grooming up to and including June 2024 in the Outcomes by Offences data tool, that can be downloaded from the Criminal Justice Statistics landing page here:Crimi...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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