Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many incidents of child abuse the police recorded in each of the last five years; and how many people have been arrested on charges of child abuse in each force area in each of the last five years.
The Home Office does not hold the requested information. The 11 individual offences of sexual abuse against children, which are collected by Home Office Statistics, are a subset of what could be categorised as ‘child abuse’.