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 Kingswood constituency who are placed (a) outside and (b) twenty miles or more from the local authority area.

The department does not collect this data by parliamentary constituency area.

The latest information on children in looked after placements, relating to the year ending 31 March 2023, was published on 16 November 2023 in the annual statistical release ‘Children looked after in England including adoptions’ which is available at: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/children-looked-after-in-england-including-adoptions.