Children in Care: Missing Persons
Commons · Question 118438 · Tabled 5 Mar 2026 · Home Office · Official record
Answered 13 Mar 2026
Question
Asked by 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
Answered by Jess Phillips, 13 Mar 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 un...