Number of corruption related offences

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Headline data

Number of corruption related offences recorded by the police.
Year Value Observation status Unit multiplier Unit measure
2017/18 105.0 Normal Value Units Number of offences
2018/19 143.0 Normal Value Units Number of offences
2019/20 109.0 Normal Value Units Number of offences
2020/21 119.0 Normal Value Units Number of offences
2021/22 125.0 Normal Value Units Number of offences

Source: Office for National Statistics

Geographical Area: England and Wales

Unit of Measurement: Number of offences

Footnote:

1. Police recorded crime data are not designated as National Statistics.

2. Due to small numbers, any differences should be interpreted with caution.

3. Police recorded crime supplied by the Home Office is updated regularly so data may have changed and superseded previous publications from the data source.

4. Each year runs from April 1st to March 31st.

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Indicator available

Number of corruption related offences
Indicator description

Number of corruption related offences recorded by the police. Numbers are based on reported cases and do not refer to the entirety of bribery cases, which can only be captured through a population survey. Therefore, these numbers may differ to those reported by the UN.
Geographical coverage

England and Wales
Unit of measurement

Number of offences
Definitions

Corruption offences have been defined as - 99/7 Offences of bribing another person contrary to section 1 of the Bribery Act 2010. 99/8 Offences relating to being bribed contrary to section 2 of the Bribery Act 2010. 99/9 Bribery of a foreign public official contrary to section 6 of the Bribery Act 2010. 99/10 Failure of a commercial organisation to prevent bribery contrary to section 7 of the Bribery Act 2010. 99/12 Misconduct in a public office.
Available disaggregations

Not available for this indicator
Calculations

No calculations were performed in the data acquisition of this indicator.
Other information

These statistics are based on police recorded crime. As with other types of crime, it is recognised that the recorded crime series will not provide a good measure of the full extent of criminality as not all offences come to the attention of the police. Therefore data should be treated with caution.

In any one period, not all territorial forces in England and Wales provided data covering these crimes. It’s not possible to say whether these forces recorded crimes of this type but didn’t provide information or simply didn’t record any such crimes as none were reported. This indicator is being used as an approximation of the UN SDG Indicator. Where possible, we will work to identify or develop UK data to meet the global indicator specification. This indicator has been identified in collaboration with topic experts.

Data last updated 24 November 2022
Metadata last updated 06 April 2023

This table provides information on metadata for SDG indicators as defined by the UN Statistical Commission. Complete global metadata is provided by the UN Statistics Division.

Indicator name

Proportion of persons who had at least one contact with a public official and who paid a bribe to a public official, or were asked for a bribe by those public officials, during the previous 12 months
Target name

Substantially reduce corruption and bribery in all their forms
Global indicator description

Not available for this indicator
UN designated tier

Tier II
UN custodian agency

United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)
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Organisation

Office for National Statistics
Periodicity

Annual
Earliest available data

2017
Geographical coverage

England and Wales
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Release date 21 July 2022
Next release

July 2023: We plan to update indicator data within 4 months of data being released
Statistical classification

Official Statistic
Contact details

crimestatistics@ons.gov.uk
Other information

See the table on ‘Corruption offences recorded by the police, by quarter’ within the ‘Crime in England and Wales - Other related data tables’.  Table numbers are not consistent for earlier releases. Data is released quaterly but is reported annually, as required by the global indicator.
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