Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many child adopters have been recruited by adoption agencies in (a) the UK, (b) England, (c) West Yorkshire, (d) Leeds and (e) Leeds North West constituency in each of the last five years.

Figures relating to adoptions and adopters in England are published in the Adoption Leadership Board (ALB) agency level data, which can be found online is available online at the following link:

www.gov.uk/government/publications/adoption-leadership-board-quarterly-data-reports

The ‘Adopters LA’ and ‘Adopters VAA’ tables provide the number of adopters approved through local authorities and voluntary adoption agencies in quarters 1 to 3 2014-15.

Prior to 2014-15, data on the number of adopters approved in England were published in the Ofsted adoption annual dataset at the following links:

www.gov.uk/government/statistics/adoption-agencies-data-in-england-1-april-2013-to-31-march-2014

www.gov.uk/government/statistics/adoption-agencies-in-england-1-april-2012-to-31-march-2013

Figures for local authorities and voluntary adoption agencies can be found in Table B2 (Question B2.6) for 2013-14, and ‘Section B’ (Question B2.5) for 2012-13.

Figures are not available prior to 2012-13.