HC Deb 26 April 2004 vol 420 c759W
Mr. Hancock

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many prosecutions for(a) sexual offences involving minors, (b) prostitution and trafficking involving children and (c) possession of child pornography there were in each of the last three years for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement. [152236]

Paul Goggins

The available information is contained in the table. Offences connected with prostitution and trafficking involving children cannot be separately identified in the statistics collected centrally.

Statistics for 2003 will be published in the autumn.

Persons proceeded against at magistrates' courts for sexual

offences1 etc. against minors where the age of the victim is

identified by the offence, 2000–02—England and Wales
Number of persons
Offences 22000 2001 2002
Sexual offences involving minors 3,442 4,095 4,422
Child pornography offences 413 486 621
1Principal offence basis.
2Excluding Staffordshire.