To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the number of child abductions in the UK in each of the last five years.
Answered on
27 April 2022
The number of offences of child abduction in England and Wales recorded by the police in the previous five years is presented in the table below.
Table 1, Police Recorded Crime, England and Wales
Year | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | January 2021 – September 2021 |
Number of child abduction offences | 1,094 | 1,189 | 1,255 | 1,144 | 983 | 768 |
This is published on the Home Office website at
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-recorded-crime-open-data-tables
The Home Office does not hold information on the number of child abduction offences in Scotland or Northern Ireland.
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