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ONS · offence category: 17B Sexual assault on a male child under 13

Police-recorded crime (excluding fraud): 17B Sexual assault on a male child under 13

4 periods to Year ending March 2026

17,730offences

Police-recorded crime (excluding fraud) for 17B Sexual assault on a male child under 13 totalled 17,730 offences in the 4 periods to Year ending March 2026, up 21.3% (3,113) on the 4 periods before.

  1. ONS dataset
  2. Table A5a
  3. Sexual assault on a male child under 13 [note 28]
  4. column “Apr 2025 to Mar 2026”
  5. 4721 per period
  6. published 23 July 2026

Year ending March 2005 to Year ending March 2026

Police-recorded crime by offence: Year ending March 2005 to Year ending March 2026LabourLabourLabourCoalitionCoalitionConservativeConservativeConservativeConservativeLabour02k4k20052010201520202025Year ending March 2005: 1,227 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2006: 1,394 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2007: 1,237 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2008: 1,121 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2009: 1,004 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2010: 1,054 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2011: 1,126 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2012: 1,011 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2013: 1,270 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2014: 1,652 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2015: 2,437 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2016: 2,662 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2017: 3,365 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2018: 3,806 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2019: 3,860 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2020: 3,747 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2021: 3,263 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2022: 3,747 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2023: 3,938 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2024: 4,373 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2025: 4,698 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2026: 4,721 offences · published 23 July 2026
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What this measures

The number of offences recorded by the police in England and Wales for every offence and offence group in the ONS appendix table, for each year ending March since 2003. Coded rows are individual Home Office offence codes; rows marked (subtotal) are the groups the ONS prints without a code.

Offences whose code was retired or introduced part way through the series (shown as unavailable for those years), or fraud reported to Action Fraud and Report Fraud for the latest year.

Source

Dataset
Crime in England and Wales: Appendix tables
Release
Year ending March 2026, published 23 July 2026 · sha256 9e4a930ec090b4b4…
All values
Police-recorded crime (excluding fraud) by offence category