Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the number of children (a) removed from and (b) allowed to remain in the jurisdiction of England and Wales under Leave to Remove applications in each year since 2004.

Leave to remove orders can be made under section 13 of the Children Act 1989 where there is a child arrangements order for the child to live with a named person.

Where there is no such child arrangements order, the court can determine an application for leave to remove under section 8 of the 1989 Act by way of a specific issue order or by making a child arrangements order.

Information on what parents decide to do after a leave to remove order has been made is not collected.