Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the average number was of looked-after children that local authorities placed in children's homes for each year for which information is available, since the publication of the Children's Home Data Pack in 2014.

Information on the number of looked-after children by placement type is published in table A2 of the statistical first release Children looked after in England including adoption: 2015 to 2016, which is available at: www.gov.uk/government/statistics/children-looked-after-in-england-including-adoption-2015-to-2016.