Question to the Department for Education:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Nash on 29 January (HL5640), whether they request and collate statistics from each local authority about pupils who are regularly absent from school, or who have been deleted from the admission register in certain circumstances.

Pupil absence information is collected by the Department at an enrolment level through the School Census.

Absence information, including figures relating to those pupils who are persistent absentees, is published three times a year in the following National Statistics releases:

• Pupil absence in schools in England: autumn term

• Pupil absence in schools in England: autumn and spring term

• Pupil absence in schools in England: full academic year

The Department does not collect information on pupils who have been deleted from the admission register for specific circumstances.