Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many care leavers were living independently without support in England by (a) age and (b) local authority in every year since 2009.

The information requested is not held centrally.

The department collects and publishes annual data on the activity and accommodation of former care leavers in the statistical release ‘Children Looked After in England including Adoption’, which can be found at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-looked-after-children.

The level of support in each accommodation type is not recorded in this release. It is not possible to determine which of the care leavers living independently do not receive support from the local authority.