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ONS · offence category: 20B Sexual assault on a female child under 13

Police-recorded crime (excluding fraud): 20B Sexual assault on a female child under 13

4 periods to Year ending March 2026

46,375offences

Police-recorded crime (excluding fraud) for 20B Sexual assault on a female child under 13 totalled 46,375 offences in the 4 periods to Year ending March 2026, up 11.4% (4,745) on the 4 periods before.

  1. ONS dataset
  2. Table A5a
  3. Sexual assault on a female child under 13 [note 28]
  4. column “Apr 2025 to Mar 2026”
  5. 11886 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 2026LabourLabourLabourCoalitionCoalitionConservativeConservativeConservativeConservativeLabour05k10k20052010201520202025Year ending March 2005: 4,391 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2006: 4,647 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2007: 4,245 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2008: 3,984 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2009: 3,665 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2010: 4,148 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2011: 4,298 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2012: 3,991 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2013: 4,177 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2014: 5,129 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2015: 6,295 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2016: 7,496 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2017: 8,150 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2018: 9,769 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2019: 10,178 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2020: 9,677 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2021: 9,544 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2022: 12,231 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2023: 11,603 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2024: 11,367 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2025: 11,519 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2026: 11,886 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