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:
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