Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many custodial sentences were handed out to parents for child truancy; and what the length of each such sentence was.

Statistics on truancy for 2014 and 2015 (latest currently available) are published by the Ministry of Justice in the “Criminal justice statistics outcomes by offence data tool”, available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-justice-system-statistics-quarterly-december-2015.