You asked

I am looking for information on the number of same sex adoptions that there have been per year since same sex adoptions were first legalised (I believe that this was 2005). Can you provide this data from then up to and including the data for 2016?

We said

Thank you for your request.

We do not hold this information. Your request may be best placed with the Department for Education, who have published the following;

Adoption Leadership Board headline measures and business intelligence Further adopter analysis 2014 to 2015