Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 5 January 2015 to Question 219314, whether her Department holds figures for the countries of origin of children who are reported to be in private fostering arrangements born outside the UK.

The table below shows the number of new private fostering arrangements by place of birth.

Where a child has been reported as having more than one private fostering arrangement during the year, each arrangement has been counted (numbers have been rounded to the nearest 10, therefore components may not sum to totals).

This information is published in table 3b of the Notifications of private fostering arrangements in England: 2014: www.gov.uk/government/statistics/notifications-of-private-fostering-arrangements-in-england-2014

The Department for Education does not collect information on when children born outside the UK, who are reported to be in private fostering arrangements, enter the UK.