Figures released in parliament last October revealed restraint was used 13 times between March 2008 and February 2010 to get children onto planes.
But in response to a freedom of information request from CYP Now this month, the Home Office said there were no recorded instances of restraint before 2009. There were only two on children under escort between March and December 2009, and none since.
Carolyne Willow, national co-ordinator at the Children's Rights Alliance for England, said: "The discrepancy in these figures is alarming and suggests at best a lack of rigorous monitoring by the Home Office of physical restraint used on vulnerable children in the most distressing of situations."
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