Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children aged under 16 have been placed in long-term foster care placements in (a) Ashfield constituency and (b) Nottinghamshire in each year since 2010; and how many children have been on the waiting list for such a placement in each of those years.

There were 310 children looked after at 31 March 2016 aged under 16 in a long-term foster placement in Nottinghamshire. This information is not available at constituency level and was collected for the first time in 2016.

The number of children who are waiting for a long-term foster placement is not collected by the department.