Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children went missing from local authority care in (a) 2014, (b) 2015 and (c) 2016.

The available information is published in table G1 of the Statistical First Release ‘Children looked after in England including adoption: 2015 to 2016’, which is available at https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/children-looked-after-in-england-including-adoption-2015-to-2016