Question follow-through · 101147

Offences against Children

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if her Department will collect and publish city-specific data on the number of grooming gangs identified by police forces.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body
Home Office
Tabled
17 Dec 2025
Target answer date
5 Jan 2026
Answer
12 Jan 2026 · 26 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 17 Dec 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if her Department will collect and publish city-specific data on the number of grooming gangs identified by police forces.

  2. 5 Jan 2026

    Target answer date

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  3. 12 Jan 2026

    Answer published

    Baroness Casey’s rapid national audit into group-based child sexual exploitation and abuse set out stark findings on the scale and nature of offending by grooming gangs. This government is committed to exposing the failures that have happened across the c...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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