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Pupils: Attendance

Asked by Abtisam MohamedLabourMinistry of JusticeTabled Answered 11 April 2025UIN 43622

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many School Attendance Order (a) prosecutions and (b) fines there were under section 443 of the Education Act 1996 in each of the last 10 years.

Answered by Alex Davies-Jones

The volume of defendants prosecuted and fined for offences under 443 of the Education Act 1996 from 2015 - 2024 (January to September) is provided in the attached table 1.

Note that that this is an additional breakdown of statistics published by the Ministry of Justice on volumes of criminal proceedings.

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