Written questions

Pupils: Absenteeism

Commons · Question 22815 · Tabled 8 Jan 2025 · Department for Education · Official record

Answered 16 Jan 2025

Question

Asked by Andrew Cooper

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment she has made of trends in the level of persistent school absences in (a) primary and (b) secondary schools in (i) Mid Cheshire constituency, (ii) Cheshire and (iii) England; and what step

Answer

Answered by Stephen Morgan, 16 Jan 2025

Detailed pupil absence data is collected as part of the school census and published on a termly basis. All absence data for England, including data at regional and local authority level, is available via the National Statistics releases.The department doe...