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UK FOI Requests: Missing Persons & Aviation Data (2002-2015)

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FOI tracker – sent 22 Oct 2025

BodyTypeEmailSubject
NCA / UK Missing Persons UnitFOIFOIRequests@nca.gov.ukFOI – UK Missing Persons & cross-border travel (2002–2015 aggregates)
Civil Aviation Authority (CAA)FOIfoi.requests@caa.co.ukFOI – UK private/charter flight movements by airport (2002–2015)
Department for Transport (DfT)FOIFOI-Advice-Team@dft.gov.ukFOI – DfT aviation statistics: scheduled vs non-scheduled/private (2002–2015)

Further Requests

NCA / UKMPU

Subject: Acknowledgment & reference requested – FOI (sent 22 Oct 2025)
Dear FOI Team,
Please confirm receipt of my FOI “UK Missing Persons & cross-border travel (2002–2015 aggregates)” sent 22 October 2025, and provide a reference number and due date.
Kind regards,
Martin Newbold

CAA

Subject: Acknowledgment & reference requested – FOI (sent 22 Oct 2025)
Dear FOI Team,
Please confirm receipt of my FOI “UK private/charter flight movements by airport (2002–2015)” sent 22 October 2025, and provide a reference number and due date.
Kind regards,
Martin Newbold

DfT

Subject: Acknowledgment & reference requested – FOI (sent 22 Oct 2025)
Dear FOI Team,
Please confirm receipt of my FOI “DfT aviation statistics: scheduled vs non-scheduled/private (2002–2015)” sent 22 October 2025, and provide a reference number and due date.
Kind regards,
Martin Newbold

ONS Internal Review

Subject: Acknowledgment requested – Internal Review FOI-2025-2962
Dear FOI Team,
Please confirm receipt of my internal review request for FOI-2025-2962 sent 22 October 2025, and advise the target date for completion.
Kind regards,
Martin Newbold

✉️ 1) Home Office / Border Force – FOI: Advanced Passenger Information & Missing Persons Interface

To: FOIRequests@homeoffice.gov.uk
Subject: FOI request – Advanced Passenger Information & Missing Persons Data Interface (2002–2015)

Dear FOI Team,

Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I request the following information for the period 2002–2015 (inclusive):

  1. Copies or titles of any policies, Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), or Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) describing how Advanced Passenger Information (API) is used in:
    • Missing persons investigations, or
    • Cross-border safeguarding/child protection cases.
  2. Details (titles and reference codes) of any data-sharing agreements between:
    • Border Force / Home Office and
    • National Crime Agency (NCA), UK Missing Persons Unit, or police forces,
      concerning access to or use of API or other travel-data systems for missing-person tracing.
  3. Any aggregate or statistical reports produced internally (or published) showing:
    • Annual or quarterly totals of API matches relating to missing persons, or
    • Total number of requests made by law-enforcement or safeguarding agencies for API look-ups during that period.
  4. A brief summary or extract of your record-retention policy for API data, indicating how long passenger data are stored and under what circumstances they may be re-queried in the context of a safeguarding investigation.

If some of the above cannot be released due to exemptions (e.g., Section 24 or 31), please provide redacted versions or high-level summaries, along with the applicable public-interest test.

If any requested material is not held, please confirm which department or agency does hold it (for example, the Civil Aviation Authority, Department for Transport, or National Archives) and whether a reformulated request would be more appropriate.

Kind regards,
Martin Newbold
(Reference context: my daughter Emily was taken in August 2010.)

📦 2) The National Archives – FOI: Archived Aviation & Passenger-Movement Statistics (2002–2015)

To: information@nationalarchives.gov.uk
Subject: FOI request – Archived UK aviation movement and passenger statistics (2002–2015)

Dear FOI Team,

Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, please provide details of any archived datasets or catalogue entries held by the National Archives that relate to UK aviation movements or passenger statistics between 2002 and 2015, specifically:

  1. Catalogue references (series codes, dataset titles, or file descriptions) for:
    • Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) flight-movement data,
    • Department for Transport (DfT) aviation statistics, or
    • Any government-compiled summaries distinguishing scheduled vs non-scheduled/private/charter flights.
  2. Catalogue entries for Home Office or Border Force datasets, if any, relating to passenger manifests, Advanced Passenger Information (API), or cross-border travel statistics.
  3. Any notes indicating that relevant datasets were retained, transferred, or withheld under public-records legislation for national-security or data-protection reasons.

If possible, please provide the TNA catalogue references and series descriptions (not the data themselves). If none are held, please confirm whether any such series were transferred from ONS, DfT, or CAA to your custody after 2015.

Kind regards,
Martin Newbold
📧 www.martinnewbold.co.uk

Attachment to all email

Our Reference: FOI-2025-2962

FOI Team <FOI.Team@ons.gov.uk> Mon, Jul 28, 2:55 PM

Dear Martin,

Thank you for your request for information. May we firstly offer our sincere condolences regarding your missing daughter. We appreciate how distressing this time must be for you.

Regarding your queries, unfortunately, the information you have requested is not collected or held by the ONS. We do not collect data on private chartered flights, nor do we collect information on passengers/passenger logs themselves or missing persons and travel.

I can also confirm that ONS has not requested such data from other organisations, nor can we therefore comment on whether statistics involving missing persons and travel are deliberately excluded from public releases. 

The National Crime Agency (NCA) publishes statistics on missing persons from the UK Missing Persons Unit. Some of their publications can be found on their website: National Crime Agency. You may wish to approach them directly to see if they can assist any further.

I am sorry we have been unable to help you further. 

You have the right to have this response to your Freedom of Information request reviewed internally by an internal review process and, if you remain unhappy with the decision, by the Information Commissioner. If you would like to have the decision reviewed please email the Freedom of Information Team at ‘foi.team@ons.gov.uk’ or write to The FoI Team, Office for National Statistics, Segensworth Road, Titchfield PO15 5RR, and mark your correspondence “Internal Review”.

If you have any queries about this email, please contact the Freedom of Information Team (‘foi.team@ons.gov.uk‘).

Please remember to quote the reference number above in any future communications.

Kind regards,

The Freedom of Information Team | UK Statistics Authority | Awdurdod Ystadegau’r Deyrnas Unedig

@UKStatsAuth | FOI.Team@ons.gov.uk | http://www.statisticsauthority.gov.uk

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