Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children were taken into care in (a) the East Midlands, (b) Leicester and (c) Leicester East constituency in each of the last 5 years.
The latest figures on the number of children taken into care in England, the East Midlands region and Leicester local authority area since 2014/15 are shown in the attached table. The department does not collect this data by parliamentary constituency area.