Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 12 November 2020 to Question 104751, what estimate he has made of the number of pupils in (a) primary schools, (b) secondary schools and (c) special schools that are not attending schools for reasons relating to the covid-19 outbreak in each (i) region and (ii) local authority area in the latest period for which information is available; and if he will publish that information on a monthly basis.

The Department intends to publish regional and local authority level data which includes a breakdown by phase on 15 December. This data will be included as part of the publication ‘Attendance in education and early years settings during the coronavirus (Covid 19) outbreak’.

The Department is constantly reviewing the content of its publications. Announcements about future content will be made through the official statistics release page: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-education/about/statistics.