Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment his Department has made of the number of children strip-searched by police officers in (a) primary schools and (b) secondary schools in each year since 2017, and how many of these were conducted without a responsible adult present.

Neither the Department for Education nor the Home Office holds figures on the number of pupils strip-searched by police officers in primary schools or secondary schools in each year since 2017, or how many of these were conducted without a responsible adult present.