Question follow-through · 34814
Pupils: Absenteeism
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what comparative assessment she has made of rates of school absence in academic year 2023-24 in England relative to the other home nations.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 3 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 5 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 13 Mar 2025 · 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
3 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what comparative assessment she has made of rates of school absence in academic year 2023-24 in England relative to the other home nations.
5 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
13 Mar 2025
Answer published
The department does not publish statistics on the other home nations besides England. The rates of school absence on the other home nations have been aggregated from the individual nations’ government websites.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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