Question follow-through · 43622

Pupils: Attendance

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many School Attendance Order (a) prosecutions and (b) fines there were under section 443 of the Education Act 1996 in each of the last 10 years.

answeredMinistry of Justice

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Answering body
Ministry of Justice
Tabled
2 Apr 2025
Target answer date
7 Apr 2025
Answer
11 Apr 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 2 Apr 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many School Attendance Order (a) prosecutions and (b) fines there were under section 443 of the Education Act 1996 in each of the last 10 years.

  2. 7 Apr 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 11 Apr 2025

    Answer published

    The volume of defendants prosecuted and fined for offences under 443 of the Education Act 1996 from 2015 - 2024 (January to September) is provided in the attached table 1.Note that that this is an additional breakdown of statistics published by the Minist...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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