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ONS · offence category: 4.3 Intentional destruction of viable unborn child

Police-recorded crime (excluding fraud): 4.3 Intentional destruction of viable unborn child

4 periods to Year ending March 2026

46offences

Police-recorded crime (excluding fraud) for 4.3 Intentional destruction of viable unborn child totalled 46 offences in the 4 periods to Year ending March 2026, down 2.1% (1) on the 4 periods before.

  1. ONS dataset
  2. Table A5a
  3. Intentional destruction of viable unborn child
  4. column “Apr 2025 to Mar 2026”
  5. 11 per period
  6. published 23 July 2026

Year ending March 2003 to Year ending March 2026

Police-recorded crime by offence: Year ending March 2003 to Year ending March 2026LabourLabourLabourLabourCoalitionCoalitionConservativeConservativeConservativeConservativeLabour05101520052010201520202025Year ending March 2003: 2 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2004: 8 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2005: 4 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2006: 5 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2007: 5 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2008: 4 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2009: 2 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2010: 3 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2011: 3 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2012: 3 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2013: 1 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2014: 4 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2015: 9 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2016: 6 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2017: 12 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2018: 16 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2019: 12 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2020: 12 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2021: 10 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2022: 13 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2023: 15 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2024: 11 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2025: 9 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2026: 11 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