Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of looked after children were unaccompanied asylum-seeking children in each local authority area in 2024.

Information on the number and proportion of looked after children, including unaccompanied asylum-seeking children, is submitted to the department on an annual basis. This was recently published on 14 November 2024 at local authority level in our statistical release and is available here: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/4e84f33a-d8a4-462c-0c25-08dd06f90d12.

The latest information on the characteristics of looked after children in England as at 31 March 2024 is within this publication and can be found here: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/children-looked-after-in-england-including-adoptions.

Figures are produced on an annual reporting year basis rather than monthly or quarterly year basis.