Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many care leavers were living in (a) semi-supported and (b) supported accommodation by (i) age and (ii) local authority area in each year since 2009.

The number of care leavers in supported or semi-supported accommodation since 2009 by age for each local authority is shown in the attached table. Information for 17 and 18 year olds has only been collected since 2016 and information for 20 and 21 year olds has only been collected since 2014.

The department collects and publishes annual data on the activity and accommodation type of former care leavers, but the level of support in each accommodation type is not recorded. It is therefore not possible to split this data by semi-supported and supported accommodation.