Question follow-through · 11533
Adoption
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children were adopted from care in England by different-sex couples in each of the last five years, broken down by the age of the child at the date of the adoption order.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 19 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 24 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 24 Jun 2026 · 5 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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Recorded timeline
19 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children were adopted from care in England by different-sex couples in each of the last five years, broken down by the age of the child at the date of the adoption order.
24 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
24 Jun 2026
Answer published
The department publishes information on the sex of adopters, including a breakdown by legal status, in Table E3 of the ‘Children looked after in England, including adoptions’ statistics release, which is available at: https://explore-education-statistics....
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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