Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children were adopted in Brighton and Hove over the last five years for which figures are available; and if she will make a statement.

The data requested is shown in the table below and is also published in Table LAE1 of the ‘Children looked after including adoption’ statistical first release [1].

Number of looked after children adopted in Brighton and Hove local authority [1]

Years ending 31 March 2010 to 2014

Source: SSDA903

Numbers have been rounded to the nearest 5.

[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/children-looked-after-in-england-including-adoption--2