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<p> </p><p> </p><p>From the data held centrally, it is not possible to separately
identify those offenders convicted of sexual offences against children, because the
prisoner offence details held centrally do not include information on the age of the
victim. Such offenders are included with other sexual offences.</p><p> </p><p>In order
to provide data relating to child sex offenders in prison, it would be necessary to
manually examine the individual prison records of over 10,900 sex offenders in prison
as at 31 December 2013 - this could only be done at disproportionate cost.</p>
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