To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many children under the age of 18 were victims of crime while running away or missing from care or home in the last 12 months. (118840)

[holding answer 5 February 2007]: The information requested is not available centrally. Information on the overall prevalence of personal victimisation among young people is published in ‘Home Office Statistical Bulletin 17/06 Young People and Crime: Findings from the 2005 Offending, Crime and Justice Survey’, copies of which are available from the Library of the House or from the Home Office website:

http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/offending_survey.html