Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if her Department will take steps to publish regular data on (a) the length of time unaccompanied asylum-seeking children have been missing, (b) whether they are still missing and (c) when they went missing.

The Home Office has no plans to publish this data at this time. Official statistics published by the Home Office are kept under review in line with the code of practice for statistics, taking into account a number of factors including user needs, as well as quality and availability of data.