Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many authorised pupil absences for illness were there in (a) primary and (b) secondary schools in each (i) spring term and (ii) autumn term in each year since 2010.
The accompanying table provides the number of absence sessions due to illness in state-funded primary and secondary schools in each spring and autumn term, for the 2010/11 to 2016/17 academic years.