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Pupils: Attendance

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people were given a custodial sentence for not paying a fine further to a School Attendance Order by (a) race and (b) gender during the 2023-24 school year.

answeredMinistry of Justice

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Answering body
Ministry of Justice
Tabled
11 Feb 2025
Target answer date
24 Feb 2025
Answer
24 Feb 2025 · 13 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 11 Feb 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people were given a custodial sentence for not paying a fine further to a School Attendance Order by (a) race and (b) gender during the 2023-24 school year.

  2. 24 Feb 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 24 Feb 2025

    Answer published

    The Ministry of Justice routinely publishes data concerning sentence outcomes by offence as part of the Criminal Justice Statistics Quarterly ‘Outcomes by offence’ tool which is available at this link: Criminal justice statistics quarterly.However, inform...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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