Question follow-through · 51195
Offences against Children: Convictions
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of grooming gang convictions since 2005 have involved perpetrators born outside the UK.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Justice
- Tabled
- 9 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 13 May 2025
- Answer
- 20 May 2025 · 11 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
9 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of grooming gang convictions since 2005 have involved perpetrators born outside the UK.
13 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
20 May 2025
Answer published
The Government takes the issue of child sexual exploitation extremely seriously and is committed to ensuring that all perpetrators are brought to justice, regardless of their background.It is not possible to identify an offender’s place of birth, or wheth...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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