Question follow-through · 103755
Missing Persons: Children
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many UK children are currently missing with active investigations to locate their whereabouts.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 7 Jan 2026
- Target answer date
- 12 Jan 2026
- Answer
- 15 Jan 2026 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
7 Jan 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many UK children are currently missing with active investigations to locate their whereabouts.
12 Jan 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
15 Jan 2026
Answer published
The Home Office does not hold this data centrally.Information about current missing persons incidents is held by individual police forces. The National Crime Agency’s UK Missing Persons Unit holds the national database for all missing incidents that are u...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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