Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, which overseas counterparts have complained to the Government about matters relating to adoption, care proceedings or other matters relating to child protection in the UK; and what the substance of those complaints was.

Data on the overall number of contacts from equivalent Departments overseas are not collated centrally within the Department for Education.

Over the past year, however, Government officials have held positive discussions, covering a wide range of international child safeguarding issues, with representatives from a number of European nations including Poland, the Slovak Republic, and the Czech Republic.