Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the number of looked after children raised in Wellingborough constituency who are placed (a) outside of the local authority area and (b) 20 miles or more from the local authority area as of 30 November 2023.

​​The department does not collect this data by Parliamentary constituency area.

​The available data relates to local authority level. The latest data on looked after children relates to 31 March 2023 and was published on 16 November 2023 in the annual statistical release ‘Children looked after in England including adoptions’, and is available here: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/children-looked-after-in-england-including-adoptions.​