To ask the Minister of Health to detail the number of households in each constituency that provide foster care, for each of the last five years.

Information on foster care households is not routinely recorded at the geographical level requested.

However, foster care households, broken down by Health and Social Care Trusts, for each of the last five years, are set out in Table 1.

Table 1: Number of registered foster care household at 31 March by Health and Social Care Trust

Source: Delegated Statutory Functions Return.

Note: Figures include kinship foster carers, non-kinship foster carers and professional foster carers. Figures exclude independent foster care providers, providers of specialist placements and kinship foster care households who are in the process of being assessed as kinship carers.