Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children were taken into care in (a) Merseyside, (b) the Wirral and (c) Wallasey constituency in each of the last 10 years.

The latest figures on the number of children taken into care in Merseyside metropolitan county and the Wirral local authority since 2009/10 are shown in the attached table. The department does not collect this data by parliamentary constituency area.

These figures on children taken into care by individual legal status are published in the statistical releases ‘Children Looked after in England including adoptions’ at local authority and regional level in the underlying data table ‘CLA ADM’ and, prior to 2017, in table C3 of the local authority tables, which are available at the following link: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-looked-after-children.