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ONS · offence category: 27 Soliciting for prostitution

Police-recorded crime (excluding fraud): 27 Soliciting for prostitution

4 periods to Year ending March 2026

785offences

Police-recorded crime (excluding fraud) for 27 Soliciting for prostitution totalled 785 offences in the 4 periods to Year ending March 2026, down 45.8% (663) on the 4 periods before.

  1. ONS dataset
  2. Table A5a
  3. Soliciting for prostitution [note 28]
  4. column “Apr 2025 to Mar 2026”
  5. 150 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 2026LabourLabourLabourLabourCoalitionCoalitionConservativeConservativeConservativeConservativeLabour01k2k20052010201520202025Year ending March 2003: 2,111 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2004: 1,944 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2005: 1,821 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2006: 1,640 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2007: 1,290 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2008: 1,216 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2009: 1,071 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2010: 1,190 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2011: 826 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2012: 797 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2013: 883 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2014: 750 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2015: 870 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2016: 599 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2017: 437 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2018: 400 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2019: 409 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2020: 375 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2021: 302 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2022: 362 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2023: 301 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2024: 182 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2025: 152 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2026: 150 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