Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate her Department's Independent Education and School Governance Division has made of the number of homeschooled children in England and Wales (a) in total and (b) who are believed to be at risk in relation to safeguarding.

The Department for Education has made no such assessment. The identification of children not receiving a suitable education, and those within that number at risk for safeguarding reasons, is a matter for each local authority.

Home education in Wales is a matter for the Welsh Government.