Written Question·Home Office·UIN 103755

Missing Persons: Children

Tabled: 7 January 2026

Answered: 15 January 2026

Question

Jim Shannon

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many UK children are currently missing with active investigations to locate their whereabouts.

Answer

Sarah Jones

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 u...

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