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Crimes of Violence: Young Offenders

Answer

The Ministry of Justice publishes data on convictions for a wide range of offences by age in the Outcomes by Offences data tool, that can be downloaded from the Criminal Justice Statistics landing page here: Criminal Justice Statistics.

The requested information is provided in the below tables.

Total number of 10 to 13 year olds convicted of certain offences at criminal courts, England and Wales, 2021 to 2025 [note 1][note 2][note 3]

Source: Court Proceedings Database

Offence	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025
Rape	0	2	3	1	0
Sexual Assault (includes penetration and non penetration)	5	1	4	5	1
Sexual Assault With Penetration	2	0	0	1	0
Exposure	0	0	0	0	0

Offence	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025
Grievous Bodily Harm	5	11	20	18	11
Actual Bodily Harm	5	4	6	5	11
Common Assault	0	4	4	4	11

Notes

Note 1

Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that these data have been extracted from large administrative data systems generated by the courts. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when those data are used.

Note 2

These figures are presented on a principal offence basis - i.e. reporting information relating to the most serious offence that a defendant was dealt with for. When a defendant has been found guilty of two or more offences it is the offence for which the heaviest penalty is imposed. Where the same disposal is imposed for two or more offences, the offence selected is the offence for which the statutory maximum penalty is the most severe.

Note 3

Only rows with non-zero values within the specified time period will appear in the table.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

HL2248

Session

2026-27

Grouped for answer

Yes

Subjects

Crimes of violence Young offenders

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

View this Written question on www.parliament.uk