Question follow-through · 85054
Pupils: Absenteeism
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has made an assessment of the effectiveness of the system of fining parents for taking their children out of school.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 24 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 28 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 4 Nov 2025 · 11 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
24 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has made an assessment of the effectiveness of the system of fining parents for taking their children out of school.
28 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
4 Nov 2025
Answer published
Tackling absence is central to the government’s mission to break down barriers to opportunity. Thanks to the efforts of schools and local authorities, attendance is moving in the right direction. Children attended over 5.3 million additional days in the 2...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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