Question follow-through · 109664
Truancy: Prosecutions
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many parents have been prosecuted for their child's non-attendance at school in each quarter of the last five years.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 29 Jan 2026
- Target answer date
- 4 Feb 2026
- Answer
- 23 Feb 2026 · 25 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
29 Jan 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many parents have been prosecuted for their child's non-attendance at school in each quarter of the last five years.
4 Feb 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
23 Feb 2026
Answer published
The department does not hold data on the total number of parents that have been prosecuted for their child’s non-attendance as this is a matter for the courts. However, our statutory guidance is clear that schools should take a ‘support first’ approach to...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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