Written questions

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...