Question follow-through · 26449
Truancy: Prosecutions
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if her Department will release an estimation of the legal costs incurred in prosecuting school attendance offences in each of the last three academic years.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 1 Sept 2026
- Target answer date
- 3 Sept 2026
- Answer
- 8 Sept 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
1 Sept 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if her Department will release an estimation of the legal costs incurred in prosecuting school attendance offences in each of the last three academic years.
3 Sept 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
8 Sept 2026
Answer published
The department does not hold data on the legal costs incurred in prosecuting school attendance offences.Statutory guidance on attendance makes it clear that legal intervention, including prosecution, should be considered only where support has been exhaus...
Official data retrieved 1 Oct 2026.
Later records
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