Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether his Department holds data on teacher sickness absence in primary schools in England in each school week.
The information requested is not available in the format requested.
Information on the number and rates of teacher sickness absence is published in the ‘School Workforce in England’ statistical publication at the following link:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-school-workforce.
Table 16 provides a national time series and there are also regional, local authority and school level tables.