Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate his Department has made of the number of days of in-person learning that has been lost to pupils since schools reopened in March 2021 as covid-19 restrictions were eased.

The Department for Education publishes weekly attendance figures in the ‘Attendance in education and early years settings during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak’ publication, including the number of children who were off school or self-isolating due to: a confirmed case of COVID-19, a suspected case of COVID-19, self-isolating due to potential contact with a case inside the school setting, self-isolating due to potential contact with a case outside the school setting, or their school being closed due to COVID related reasons.

The publication is available here: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/attendance-in-education-and-early-years-settings-during-the-coronavirus-covid-19-outbreak.

Table 1B, which is an accompanying file available to download, has daily attendance figures which cover the period requested (March 2021-present).