Offences Against Children: Prosecutions
Justice
Written answers and statements, 4 November 2009
Annette Brooke (Mid Dorset & North Poole, Liberal Democrat)
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice pursuant to the answer of 25 May 2009, Official Report, column 1145W, on offences against children: convictions, how many people were prosecuted for sexual offences against persons under the age of 18 years in 2008; and how many such prosecutions resulted in a conviction.
Claire Ward (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Ministry of Justice; Watford, Labour)
Data for 2008 are planned for publication at the end of January 2010.
The Ministry of Justice had pre-announced, in line with the Code of Practice for Official Statistics, that the following publications would be released in November 2009:
Criminal statistics 2008
Sentencing statistics 2008 (annual publication)
Women and the criminal justice system
Since announcing these dates, data quality issues were encountered. To allow sufficient time to resolve these issues all three publications were delayed until January 2010. An update on the delay of these statistical publications was released on the Ministry of Justice website on
http://www.justice.gov.uk/latest-updates/announcement081009a.htm