Some 23 girls are still missing from a city's schools after extensive efforts to locate them, a minister has disclosed.
It is feared that the children in Bradford have been pressured into forced marriages. The Government also has concerns about 14 further areas which are suspected of having high rates of so-called "honour violence".
Children's Minister Kevin Brennan said officials were inquiring into the number of under-16s missing from school rolls in those areas.
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He told the Commons Home Affairs Select Committee, which is investigating forced marriages, that Bradford City Council had lost track of 205 youngsters last year.
Further inquiries had established the whereabouts of 172 - leaving 23 unaccounted for.
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