[holding answer 16 September 2009]: The number of registered sex offenders resident in each police authority area in 2007-08 is represented in the attached table as reported in the local MAPPA Annual Reports 2007-08. These are the latest data.
The Government do not hold information relating to the number of sex offenders convicted of offences involving minors resident in each police authority area.
Area RSOs National 31,392 North East 1,636 County Durham 378 Northumbria 888 Teesside 370 North West 4635 Cheshire 614 Cumbria 265 Greater Manchester 1,716 Lancashire 1,015 Merseyside 1,025 Yorkshire and Humberside 3,345 Humberside 670 North Yorkshire 392 South Yorkshire 857 West Yorkshire 1,426 East Midlands 2,750 Derbyshire 634 Leicestershire 541 Lincolnshire 401 Northamptonshire 383 Nottinghamshire 791 West Midlands 3,520 Staffordshire 696 Warwickshire 239 West Mercia 690 West Midlands 1895 Wales 1925 Dyfed-Powys 288 Gwent 422 North Wales 414 South Wales 801 East of England 2,908 Bedfordshire 321 Cambridgeshire 435 Essex 735 Hertfordshire 436 Norfolk 545 Suffolk 436 London 3,351 South East 4,398 Hampshire 1,155 Kent 1,030 Surrey 454 Sussex 790 Thames Valley 969 South West 2,924 Avon and Somerset 816 Devon and Cornwall 962 Dorset 446 Gloucestershire 312 Wiltshire 388