Question to the Home Office:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many children remain missing of those reported missing since 1 July 2007.

This information is held with individual police forces. The National Crime Agency publishes annual statistics on Missing Persons which includes missing children http://missingpersons.police.uk.

The last published report shows that in 2011/12 there were around 313,000 missing persons incidents. This report also finds that 64% of missing

incidents involved cases of missing children.

Data within this report shows that the majority (70%) of missing people return or are located within 16 hours with only 2% missing for longer than a week.