§ Mr. Frank FieldTo ask the Secretary of State for Health how many children from the former Yugoslavia have been(a) adopted, (b) taken into local authority care and (c) placed with foster parents in the United Kingdom each year since 1991; and what estimate he has made of 250W the number of children from the former Yugoslavia living in informal foster families in the United Kingdom.[21493]
§ Mr. BowisAdoption figures for England and Wales are collected by the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys. The figures are shown in the table. Information relating to adoptions in Scotland and Northern Ireland are matters for my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Scotland and my right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland respectively. Figures on the country of birth of children looked after by local authorities or privately fostered are not available centrally.
The numbers of children who were born in the former country of Yugoslavia and adopted by means of adoption orders made by courts within England and Wales were:
- 1991: 0
- 1992: 0
- 1993: 1
- 1994: 2
- 1995: 5
(1) These figures do not include any children who were adopted in the former Yugoslavia and who subsequently came to live in England and Wales.