Question follow-through · 2247
Missing Persons: Devon
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her department is taking to, a) reduce the number of children that go missing, and b) find children who have gone missing, in Devon.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 18 May 2026
- Target answer date
- 20 May 2026
- Answer
- 28 May 2026 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
18 May 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her department is taking to, a) reduce the number of children that go missing, and b) find children who have gone missing, in Devon.
20 May 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
28 May 2026
Answer published
This Government remains firmly committed to working across government and with safeguarding partners, including the police and voluntary sector, to ensure a robust response to when people go missing anywhere across the country. This includes ensuring that...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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