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Truancy: Fines

Volume 501: debated on Tuesday 24 November 2009

To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many parents have been fined as a result of their children not attending school in (a) Lewes constituency, (b) Sussex and (c) the South East in each of the last five years. (301281)

The Department collects data at local authority level on the number of penalty notices issued to parents for their child's unauthorised absence from school. Information is not available at constituency level. These data have been collected since 1 September 2004 and the latest data available relate to the period to 31 August 2008. For each of these four years, the data for Sussex and the south-east are:

Number

South-east

Sussex

1 September 2004 to 31 August 2005

117

19

1 September 2005 to 1 September 2006

782

150

2 September 2006 to 31 August 2007

1,973

226

1 September 2007 to 3 August 2008

2,429

170

Full penalty notice data can be found at:

http://www.teachernet.gov.uk/_doc/13800/DataPNsFTPOsPCs%20Cumlative%20Sep04-Aug08.pdf