Written Question·Department for Education·UIN 22815

Pupils: Absenteeism

Tabled: 8 January 2025
Answered: 16 January 2025
Named Day

Question

Andrew Cooper

LabourMid Cheshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment she has made of trends in the level of persistent school absences in (a) primary and (b) secondary schools in (i) Mid Cheshire constituency, (ii) Cheshire and (iii) England; and what step

Answer

Stephen Morgan
Detailed pupil absence data is collected as part of the school census and published on a termly basis. All absence data for England, including data at regional and local authority level, is available via the National Statistics releases.The department doe...

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