Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many children have been abducted by a member of their family in the last five years; how many such children were returned to their family; and how long each such abduction lasted.

The Home Office does not hold the specific information requested.

Statistics on child abduction are published by the Office of National Statistics (ONS). This data does not identify the perpetrator. Nor does it provide a breakdown of attempted child abductions and actual child abductions.

The latest ONS statistics, published 16 October 2014, report that there have been 2721 child abductions and attempted abductions in the last five years.
A breakdown of this figure by year is provided below: