Publication - FOI/EIR release

Outgoing child abduction cases year by year: FOI release

Published: 10 June 2020
Directorate: Justice Directorate
Topic: Children and families, Law and order, Public sector
FOI reference: FOI/202000043313
Date received: 1 April 2020
Date responded: 5 June 2020

Information request and response under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002

Information requested

The number of children who were abducted from Scotland under the 1980 Convention On The Civil Aspects Of International Child Abduction by a parent, year on year for the last 10 years.

Response

The information you have requested in listed in the table below

Year	Number	Year	Number
2010	10	2015	16
2011	9	2016	20
2012	16	2017	19
2013	16	2018	16
2014	13	2019	12

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Central Enquiry Unit
Email: ceu@gov.scot
Phone: 0300 244 4000

The Scottish Government
St Andrews House
Regent Road
Edinburgh
EH1 3DG

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