Question follow-through · 22815

Pupils: Absenteeism

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

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Answering body
Department for Education
Tabled
8 Jan 2025
Target answer date
13 Jan 2025
Answer
16 Jan 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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  1. 8 Jan 2025

    Question tabled

    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

  2. 13 Jan 2025

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  3. 16 Jan 2025

    Answer published

    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...

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