Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many sexual offences were committed against children in (a) the UK, (b) Greater Manchester and (c) Wigan in 2016.
Data for these offences by year and by police force area/community safety partnership (Greater Manchester is a police force area, Wigan is a community safety partnership area) are available in the police recorded crime and outcomes open data available here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-recorded-crime-open-data-tables