Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent estimate he has made of the number of (a) 16 and (b) 17 year olds living in unsupported independent living accommodation.
Data on children looked-after in independent living without live-in support is not collected or published by the department. The department collects annual data on looked-after children in independent living, with or without live-in support.