Question follow-through · 20022
Pupils: Absenteeism
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to help tackle persistent absence in schools in Slough constituency.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 13 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 17 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 23 Dec 2024 · 10 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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Recorded timeline
13 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to help tackle persistent absence in schools in Slough constituency.
17 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
23 Dec 2024
Answer published
This government is determined to tackle the generational challenge of school absence which is a fundamental barrier to learning and life chances. Missing school regularly is harmful to a child’s attainment, safety and physical and mental health, which lim...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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