HC Deb 06 February 1995 vol 254 c20W
Mrs. Golding

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how many British citizens have been prosecuted for sexual offences involving children outside the United Kingdom for each year since records have been kept.

Mr. Baldry

There have been 135 reported cases of British citizens prosecuted outside the United Kingdom for sexual offences since 1974. Our records do not show which of those cases involved children.

Year Number of cases
1974 1
1981 1
1982 1
1983 2
1986 2
1987 15
1988 24
1989 17
1990 15
1991 17
1992 16
1993 15
1994 9