§ Mr. Kilroy-Silkasked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many children subject to care proceedings are being boarded currently at hostels; and, if he has no such figures, if he will take steps to obtain them.
§ Mr. MoyleInformation in the form requested is not collected by my Department. The number of children in care, on remand or on interim care orders who were accommodated in hostels will be known when the statistics for children in care at 31st March 1977 are fully processed. I have no plans to alter the form in which these statistics are now being collected.