Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the number of child abductions in the UK in each of the last five years.

The number of offences of child abduction in England and Wales recorded by the police in the previous five years is presented in the table below.

Table 1, Police Recorded Crime, England and Wales

This is published on the Home Office website at

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-recorded-crime-open-data-tables

The Home Office does not hold information on the number of child abduction offences in Scotland or Northern Ireland.