Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an estimate of the number of SEN children fined for school absences in the last academic year.

The information requested is not held by the department.

The department collects aggregate data on penalty notices from local authorities in England through the annual ‘parental responsibility measures’ attendance census. Information is not collected on the characteristics of the children concerned.

The available data are published in the following statistical release: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/parental-responsibility-measures.

The most recent data was published in January 2025.