§ Mr. CoxTo ask the Secretary of State for Health how many children from overseas have been adopted by British citizens living in the United Kingdom in each of the last three years. [118378]
§ Mr. HuttonThe Department does not hold information about the number of children adopted from overseas, only about the number of inter-country adoption applications that it has processed. These will account for the majority of such adoptions and are set out in the table:
Year Number of inter-country adoption applications processed Year by Department 1997 223 1998 258 1999 277