§ Tim LoughtonTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many children seeking asylum who have arrived in the UK are missing from care. [144996]
§ Margaret HodgeAt 31 March 2003, the most recent date for which information is available, there were 15 unaccompanied asylum-seeking children missing from their agreed placements within local authority care in England. Information is not collected by this Department on the number of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children who are in care in other parts of the UK.