Question follow-through · 63478
Pupils: Attendance
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department plans to review how attendance at schools is recorded for students who have been transferred to another school.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 27 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 1 Jul 2025
- Answer
- 10 Jul 2025 · 13 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
27 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department plans to review how attendance at schools is recorded for students who have been transferred to another school.
1 Jul 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
10 Jul 2025
Answer published
Once a pupil has been transferred to another school, their name is deleted from both the admission and attendance registers.The ’Working together to improve school attendance’ guidance sets out the process clearly for schools in paragraphs 222-224. The gu...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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