FOI 0936-2025/26 & 0939-2025/26- Rape offences

Request:

Q1. Please provide the total number of offences recorded as Rape of a female child under 16 (019/07; Sexual Offences Act 2003, s.5 Rape of a child under 16) between 1 January 2023 and 1 December 2025.

Q2. Please provide the total number of offences recorded as Rape of a female aged 16 or over (Home Office code 019/08; Sexual Offences Act 2003, s.1) between 1 January 2023 and 1 December 2025.

Under Section 5 of the Freedom of Information and Data Protection (Appropriate Limit and Fees) Regulations 2004, requests can be aggregated where (a) the two or more requests by one person relate, to any extent, to the same or similar information, and (b) those requests received by the public authority within any period of sixty consecutive working days.

As such, your requests made on 14 December 2025 0936.2025-26 and 15 December 2025 0939.2025-26, have been aggregated into one response.

Response:

Extent and Result of Searches to Locate Information

To locate the information relevant to your request searches were conducted within North Yorkshire Police.

I can confirm that the information you have requested is held by North Yorkshire Police. 

Decision

I have today decided to disclose the following information to you.

Q1 & Q2. Please see the table below showing the number of 19/07 and 19/08 crimes recorded between 01 January 2023 and 30 November 2025.

Please note that systems used for recording information are not generic, nor are the procedures used locally in capturing the data.  It should be noted therefore that this force’s response to your questions should not be used for comparison purposes with any other responses you may receive.