Question follow-through · 90527
Pupils: Absenteeism
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of waiving fines for parents judged to be responsible by the headteacher for taking their children out of school during term for holidays.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 12 Nov 2025
- Target answer date
- 17 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 24 Nov 2025 · 12 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
12 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of waiving fines for parents judged to be responsible by the headteacher for taking their children out of school during term for holidays.
17 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
24 Nov 2025
Answer published
The department has no plans to review our approach to term-time holidays. Schools can grant pupils a leave of absence for exceptional circumstances at their discretion, judging each application on the specific facts. However, generally a holiday would no...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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