PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Armed Forces: Offences against Children (2 January 2015)
Question Asked
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many allegations of child abuse there have been in the armed forces in each year since 2010.
Asked by:
Karl Turner (Labour)
Asked by:
Karl Turner (Labour)
Answer
The Ministry of Defence (MOD) holds information about investigations of alleged child abuse where the Service Police had jurisdiction and the investigative lead. Numbers of investigations in each year since 2010 are set out below. Information about allegations that have been investigated by the Home Office Police Forces is not held by the MOD.
Child abuse is defined here as offences under Section 1 of the Children and Young Persons Act 1933, Section 27 of the Offences Against the Persons Act 1861 and any offences within the Sexual Offences Act 2003 where the victim was under 18.
Year | Number of Investigations by the Service Police |
2010 | 31 |
2011 | 17 |
2012 | 18 |
2013 | 16 |
2014 | 16 |
Answered by:
Anna Soubry (The Independent Group for Change)
2 February 2015
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