Written Question·Home Office·UIN 118438

Children in Care: Missing Persons

Tabled: 5 March 2026

Answered: 13 March 2026

Question

Jess Brown-Fuller

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department holds data on the number of children that go missing by region every year.

Answer

Jess Phillips

The Home Office does not hold this data centrally.Information about current missing persons incidents is held by individual police forces.The National Crime Agency’s UK Missing Persons Unit holds the national database for all missing incidents that are un...

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