Sexual Offences: Victims
Commons · Question 18334 · Tabled 13 Jul 2026 · Home Office · Official record
Answered 21 Jul 2026
Question
Asked by Scott Arthur
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many woman and girls she estimates have been victims of grooming gangs; and what methodology she uses to calculate that number.
Answer
Answered by Sarah Jones, 21 Jul 2026
The true scale of group-based child sexual exploitation remains unknown because of under-reporting, under-identification, and variations in data collection and analysis. However, data from the Centre for Expertise on Child Sexual Abuse shows that 15% of g...