HC Deb 07 March 1983 vol 38 c281W
Mr. Greville Janner

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what information he has as to how many men, women, boys and girls, respectively, were reported missing in (a) Wiltshire, (b) Gloucestershire, (c) Hereford and Worcester, (d) Shropshire, (e) Cheshire, (f)Derbyshire, (g) the west midlands, (h) Warwickshire, (i) Northamptonshire, (j) Nottinghamshire, (k) Cambridgeshire, (l) Bedfordshire, (m) Buckinghamshire, (n) Staffordshire and (o) Oxfordshire, respectively, in each of the last 10 years for which records are available; and how many persons in each category were subsequently traced.

Mr. Mellor

Comprehensive statistics on missing persons are not collected centrally and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.