You asked

​I'm looking for some information regarding sex offenders in the UK:

the most up to date number of people on the sex offenders register, broken down by type of crimes please e.g. contact, image, non contact etc.

statistics surrounding number of people convicted for contact offences, non contact offences and image related offences;

the number of people who have been convicted of a non-contact offence who have then gone on to commit a contact offence.

We said

Thank you for your request relating to sex offenders.

Our publications and data concern crime as it is experienced by victims or as it is recorded by police. We do not generally produce statistics relating to offenders.

The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) are primarily responsible for data on offenders and may be better placed to answer your query.  They can be contacted at: statistics.enquiries@justice.gsi.gov.uk.

If you have any crime-related queries in future, you can email crimestatistics@ons.gov.uk and we will endeavour to help you.