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Pupils: Absenteeism
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Department for Education's press release entitled Birthday bunk-offs fuelling avoidable school absence, published on 10 June 2026, what estimate she has made of the cost to the education s
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 12 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 16 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 23 Jun 2026 · 11 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
12 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Department for Education's press release entitled Birthday bunk-offs fuelling avoidable school absence, published on 10 June 2026, what estimate she has made of the cost to the education s
16 Jun 2026
Target answer date
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23 Jun 2026
Answer published
Each day of lost learning can do serious harm. Days missed add up quickly, even if it takes just 1 minute to catch up on each day of school that pupils miss, this still equates to resource equivalent of 1,000 full time teachers working purely on missed le...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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