Written Question·Department for Education·UIN 32536

Tabled: 9 October 2026

Question

Alistair Strathern

Labour — Hitchin

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many babies under the age of two whose mother was in custody were (a) subject to care proceedings and (b) accommodated under section 20 of the Children Act 1989 in each of the last five years; and what plan