Missing Persons: Children
Commons · Question 103755 · Tabled 7 Jan 2026 · Home Office · Official record
Answered 15 Jan 2026
Question
Asked by 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
Answered by Sarah Jones, 15 Jan 2026
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...