Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many self-employed people adopted a child in (a) Oxfordshire and (b) England in each of the last five years for which figures are available.
The information requested is not held centrally
The latest figures on adoption were published in a Statistical First Release ‘Children looked after in England including adoption: 2016 to 2017’ on the 7 December 2017. The release is available on the department’s website https://www.gov.uk/government/
statistics/children-looked-after-in-england-including-adoption-2016-to-2017.