Question to the Home Office:

To ask Her Majesty's Government, when they closed down the National Register for Unaccompanied Children in 2011, whether any (1) data on unaccompanied children, and (2) information regarding missing children and human trafficking concerns, was retained by central government.

The National Register for Unaccompanied Children (NRUC) was not administered by central Government. When the NRUC was closed, arrangements were made to dispose of all data held on the database. No information from the register was retained by central Government.