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To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what levels of truancy were in (a) primary and (b) secondary schools in each year since 1997, broken down by local education authority; and if he will make a statement.

Asked by

Chris Huhne (Liberal Democrat)

Answering body

Department for Education and Skills

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

10 October 2006

For answer on

12 October 2006

Answered on

23 October 2006

The Department does not hold data on pupils recorded as truant. However, the figures for the proportion of half days missed due to unauthorised absence (of which truancy forms a part) in maintained mainstream primary schools and maintained mainstream secondary schools in each year since 1997, broken down by local authority are given in the following tables.

Percentage of half days missed in maintained mainstream primary schools¹ due to unauthorised absence²
Local authority	1997-98	1998-99	1999-2000	2000-01	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06³
Barking and Dagenham	1.2	1.4	1.4	1.4	1.52	1.37	1.34	1.27	1.22
Barnet	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.6	0.64	0.56	0.65	0.74	0.54
Barnsley	0.7	0.8	0.8	0.8	0.77	0.75	0.53	0.63	0.78
Bath and North East Somerset	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.33	0.32	0.32	0.28	0.34
Bedfordshire	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.2	0.21	0.21	0.17	0.22	0.25
Bexley	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.36	0.35	0.33	0.44	0.54
Birmingham	0.8	0.8	0.8	0.7	0.67	0.65	0.64	0.64	0.74
Blackburn with Darwen	0.7	0.7	0.5	0.5	0.46	0.45	0.50	0.40	0.46
Blackpool	0.8	0.7	0.8	0.8	0.86	0.68	0.71	0.73	0.61
Bolton	0.3	0.3	0.2	0.3	0.37	0.33	0.33	0.37	0.51
Bournemouth	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.3	0.24	0.20	0.21	0.27	0.25
Bracknell Forest	0.3	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.22	0.15	0.16	0.17	0.23
Bradford	1.1	1.1	0.9	0.9	0.76	0.69	0.70	0.82	0.95
Brent	0.8	0.7	0.6	0.6	0.49	0.41	0.55	0.54	0.59
Brighton and Hove	0.7	0.7	0.6	0.6	0.54	0.55	0.51	0.59	0.48
Bristol, City of	1.0	1.0	0.9	1.0	0.92	0.93	0.89	0.90	0.91
Bromley	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.40	0.43	0.60	0.53	0.68
Buckinghamshire	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.25	0.27	0.24	0.28	0.27
Bury	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.42	0.28	0.25	0.21	0.22
Calderdale	0.4	0.4	0.3	0.3	0.25	0.31	0.30	0.38	0.30
Cambridgeshire	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.33	0.34	0.39	0.39	0.46
Camden	1.1	1.3	1.2	1.3	1.10	0.77	0.56	0.57	0.60
Cheshire	0.4	0.4	0.3	0.4	0.34	0.38	0.39	0.40	0.39
Cornwall	0.4	0.4	0.3	0.3	0.36	0.30	0.32	0.39	0.39
Coventry	0.4	0.5	0.4	0.3	0.29	0.22	0.31	0.26	0.28
Croydon	0.6	0.7	0.5	0.7	0.55	0.69	0.73	0.63	0.67
Cumbria	0.2	0.1	0.2	0.2	0.20	0.21	0.17	0.16	0.15
Darlington	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.29	0.18	0.33	0.33	0.39
Derby City	0.8	0.7	0.7	0.7	0.76	0.61	0.60	0.67	0.75
Derbyshire	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.4	0.43	0.41	0.36	0.38	0.36
Devon	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.26	0.25	0.26	0.24	0.24
Doncaster	0.4	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.50	0.40	0.31	0.32	0.43
Dorset	0.4	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.31	0.25	0.25	0.24	0.29
Dudley	0.2	0.3	0.3	0.4	0.32	0.37	0.28	0.34	0.39
Durham	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.14	0.10	0.12	0.15	0.15
Ealing	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.3	0.25	0.22	0.27	0.26	0.33
East Riding of Yorkshire	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.19	0.19	0.13	0.12	0.12
East Sussex	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.5	0.37	0.41	0.53	0.77	0.71
Enfield	0.9	1.0	1.1	1.2	1.11	1.11	0.81	0.75	0.71
Essex	0.4	0.4	0.3	0.4	0.35	0.37	0.37	0.33	0.38
Gateshead	0.5	0.5	0.4	0.4	0.35	0.26	0.27	0.23	0.22
Gloucestershire	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.2	0.24	0.24	0.23	0.26	0.24
Greenwich	1.7	1.6	1.4	1.3	1.38	1.45	1.24	1.16	1.33
Hackney	1.3	1.5	1.5	1.6	1.36	1.36	1.16	1.04	1.13
Halton	0.7	0.7	0.7	0.8	0.57	0.46	0.44	0.47	0.53
Hammersmith and Fulham	1.3	1.4	1.2	0.9	0.61	0.76	0.70	0.62	0.80
Hampshire	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.4	0.36	0.33	0.30	0.29	0.29
Haringey	1.4	1.4	2.0	1.7	1.62	1.39	1.13	1.21	1.09
Harrow	0.5	0.4	0.5	0.4	0.32	0.21	0.17	0.14	0.17
Hartlepool	0.5	0.7	0.8	0.8	0.76	0.80	0.60	0.51	0.51
Havering	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.21	0.24	0.22	0.27	0.32
Herefordshire	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.3	0.18	0.19	0.20	0.22	0.25
Hertfordshire	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.37	0.34	0.32	0.33	0.35
Hillingdon	0.8	1.0	0.9	0.8	0.71	0.67	0.58	0.55	0.59
Hounslow	0.9	0.8	0.9	1.1	1.03	1.19	1.16	1.08	1.10
Isle of Wight	0.1	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.20	0.12	0.10	0.12	0.17
Isles of Scilly	0.1	0.0	0.2	—	—	0.70	0.42	0.87	0.21
Islington	1.1	1.2	1.2	1.1	1.20	1.26	0.96	0.81	0.72
Kensington and Chelsea	1.4	1.3	0.9	1.1	0.89	0.59	0.40	0.35	0.46
Kent	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.37	0.37	0.36	0.43	0.47
Kingston upon Hull, City of	0.8	0.9	0.8	0.8	0.68	0.65	0.55	0.57	0.63
Kingston upon Thames	0.3	0.3	0.4	0.3	0.25	0.22	0.23	0.29	0.24
Kirklees	0.8	0.7	0.6	0.6	0.48	0.41	0.40	0.35	0.35
Knowsley	0.6	0.7	0.7	0.8	0.69	0.64	0.75	0.66	0.78
Lambeth	1.3	1.2	1.1	1.2	1.07	1.07	0.97	1.01	0.98
Lancashire	0.3	0.4	0.4	0.3	0.34	0.31	0.32	0.34	0.35
Leeds	0.7	0.6	0.5	0.6	0.47	0.43	0.39	0.39	0.44
Leicester City	0.6	0.6	0.5	0.7	0.64	0.71	0.71	0.70	0.74
Leicestershire	0.1	0.1	0.2	0.2	0.17	0.17	0.18	0.20	0.21
Lewisham	1.3	1.3	1.5	1.7	1.35	1.06	0.97	1.09	1.09
Lincolnshire	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.33	0.28	0.29	0.26	0.24
Liverpool	0.8	0.8	0.6	0.6	0.53	0.52	0.48	0.45	0.48
London, City of	1.9	1.6	1.9	0.9	0.32	0.00	0.29	0.03	0.03
Luton	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.58	0.53	0.50	0.55	0.67
Manchester	1.2	1.0	0.9	1.0	0.88	0.83	0.85	0.93	1.05
Medway	0.5	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.36	0.30	0.31	0.37	0.35
Merton	0.8	0.8	0.6	0.5	0.38	0.35	0.33	0.39	0.27
Middlesbrough	0.5	0.5	0.6	0.5	0.35	0.37	0.42	0.49	0.49
Milton Keynes	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.3	0.35	0.29	0.22	0.24	0.25
Newcastle upon Tyne	0.6	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.51	0.49	0.38	0.41	0.47
Newham	2.0	1.7	1.7	1.7	1.53	1.04	0.71	0.76	0.91
Norfolk	0.4	0.4	0.5	0.5	0.46	0.45	0.41	0.42	0.41
North East Lincolnshire	0.2	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.19	0.23	0.23	0.24	0.22
North Lincolnshire	0.3	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.28	0.22	0.22	0.31	0.33
North Somerset	0.2	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.23	0.31	0.26	0.28	0.27
North Tyneside	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.11	0.12	0.17	0.18	0.20
North Yorkshire	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.17	0.16	0.17	0.18	0.22
Northamptonshire	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.44	0.39	0.38	0.42	0.44
Northumberland	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.2	0.21	0.19	0.19	0.19	0.26
Nottingham City	1.2	1.1	1.0	0.8	0.75	0.70	0.62	0.68	0.68
Nottinghamshire	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.42	0.39	0.35	0.36	0.34
Oldham	0.6	0.7	0.5	0.5	0.44	0.46	0.41	0.39	0.40
Oxfordshire	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.32	0.29	0.26	0.30	0.28
Peterborough City	0.5	0.5	0.7	0.6	0.50	0.51	0.49	0.47	0.51
Plymouth	0.5	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.29	0.26	0.26	0.25	0.29
Poole	0.6	0.6	0.5	0.5	0.50	0.47	0.46	0.42	0.49
Portsmouth	0.8	0.8	0.8	0.8	0.74	0.82	0.73	0.75	0.69
Reading	1.0	1.0	0.9	0.8	0.56	0.43	0.46	0.51	0.53
Redbridge	0.8	0.8	0.8	0.9	0.76	0.77	0.77	0.80	0.93
Redcar and Cleveland	0.3	0.2	0.2	0.3	0.22	0.25	0.25	0.30	0.32
Richmond upon Thames	0.1	0.2	0.3	0.3	0.27	0.32	0.35	0.44	0.53
Rochdale	0.5	0.4	0.4	0.5	0.49	0.57	0.70	0.75	0.70
Rotherham	0.6	0.7	0.7	0.6	0.55	0.46	0.40	0.45	0.66
Rutland	0.0	0.0	0.1	0.1	0.19	0.15	0.07	0.05	0.05
Salford	1.1	0.8	0.6	0.6	0.51	0.43	0.59	0.66	0.71
Sandwell	0.4	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.44	0.47	0.48	0.51	0.64
Sefton	0.3	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.23	0.22	0.20	0.28	0.40
Sheffield	1.1	1.0	1.0	0.9	0.77	0.66	0.64	0.69	0.71
Shropshire	0.2	0.2	0.1	0.1	0.13	0.13	0.13	0.14	0.17
Slough	0.6	0.8	0.9	0.8	0.70	0.75	0.79	0.87	1.11
Solihull	0.1	0.2	0.2	0.3	0.24	0.31	0.36	0.43	0.46
Somerset	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.3	0.28	0.27	0.26	0.32	0.47
South Gloucestershire	0.2	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.29	0.27	0.21	0.24	0.23
South Tyneside	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.2	0.11	0.15	0.20	0.19	0.22
Southampton	0.9	1.0	0.8	0.9	0.77	0.60	0.66	0.75	0.74
Southend-on-Sea	0.7	0.5	0.7	0.6	0.67	0.60	0.40	0.43	0.37
Southwark	1.7	1.6	1.6	1.7	1.78	1.74	1.61	1.34	1.25
St. Helens	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.3	0.39	0.35	0.33	0.39	0.46
Staffordshire	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.24	0.22	0.19	0.19	0.22
Stockport	0.4	0.4	0.5	0.4	0.39	0.31	0.30	0.27	0.29
Stockton on Tees	0.1	0.2	0.1	0.2	0.14	0.21	0.22	0.29	0.35
Stoke on Trent	0.5	0.6	0.5	0.6	0.69	0.74	0.67	0.67	0.77
Suffolk	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.26	0.25	0.27	0.31	0.33
Sunderland	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.1	0.16	0.18	0.21	0.23	0.29
Surrey	0.2	0.2	0.3	0.3	0.31	0.29	0.25	0.28	0.28
Sutton	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.41	0.26	0.31	0.37	0.51
Swindon	0.5	0.4	0.4	0.2	0.23	0.20	0.23	0.30	0.39
Tameside	0.3	0.3	0.2	0.2	0.24	0.36	0.32	0.27	0.33
Telford and Wrekin	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.4	0.28	0.27	0.29	0.22	0.23
Thurrock	0.8	0.8	0.6	0.7	0.54	0.53	0.57	0.68	0.66
Torbay	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.4	0.36	0.34	0.35	0.29	0.30
Tower Hamlets	1.7	1.4	1.5	1.5	1.38	1.20	1.19	1.22	1.27
Trafford	0.3	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.17	0.17	0.18	0.19	0.12
Wakefield	0.7	0.7	0.6	0.5	0.51	0.55	0.55	0.53	0.50
Walsall	0.8	0.6	0.7	0.5	0.47	0.47	0.40	0.39	0.44
Waltham Forest	0.8	0.7	0.7	0.7	0.53	0.54	0.68	0.53	0.63
Wandsworth	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.56	0.58	0.57	0.57	0.64
Warrington	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.31	0.33	0.47	0.52	0.67
Warwickshire	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.16	0.20	0.19	0.16	0.18
West Berkshire	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.3	0.36	0.30	0.31	0.34	0.30
West Sussex	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.3	0.26	0.25	0.21	0.23	0.24
Westminster, City of	1.1	1.4	0.9	0.9	0.77	0.62	0.51	0.68	0.87
Wigan	0.3	0.4	0.3	0.3	0.25	0.25	0.24	0.28	0.31
Wiltshire	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.30	0.30	0.31	0.30	0.31
Windsor and Maidenhead	0.3	0.3	0.4	0.3	0.28	0.34	0.40	0.37	0.29
Wirral	0.5	0.5	0.4	0.4	0.39	0.41	0.30	0.27	0.26
Wokingham	0.3	0.2	0.3	0.3	0.21	0.20	0.21	0.25	0.26
Wolverhampton	0.9	0.8	0.7	0.6	0.44	0.49	0.51	0.51	0.56
Worcestershire	0.4	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.17	0.19	0.23	0.22	0.27
York, City of	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.41	0.45	0.32	0.30	0.38

Percentage of half days missed in maintained mainstream secondary schools¹ due to unauthorised absence²
Local authority	1997-98	1998-99	1999-2000	2000-01	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06³
Barking and Dagenham	2.0	2.0	1.7	2.0	2.04	1.91	1.93	2.00	1.57
Barnet	0.8	0.9	1.1	1.3	0.95	0.97	1.07	1.01	0.90
Barnsley	1.9	2.0	1.9	1.3	1.56	1.38	1.35	1.50	1.99
Bath and North East Somerset	0.4	0.6	0.6	0.6	1.08	0.83	0.83	0.95	0.98
Bedfordshire	0.4	0.5	0.5	0.4	0.41	0.42	0.42	0.68	0.50
Bexley	0.5	0.6	1.1	1.1	1.19	0.75	1.11	0.71	1.12
Birmingham	1.7	1.6	1.6	1.6	1.62	1.50	1.59	1.42	1.39
Blackburn with Darwen	1.3	1.4	1.4	1.2	1.34	1.26	1.13	1.03	1.30
Blackpool	1.6	1.6	1.9	1.3	1.33	1.37	1.88	1.70	1.91
Bolton	1.8	1.7	1.2	1.2	1.19	1.14	1.37	1.85	1.59
Bournemouth	1.0	0.9	0.8	0.7	0.55	0.59	0.66	1.30	0.59
Bracknell Forest	0.5	1.1	0.9	1.2	0.90	0.87	0.70	0.82	1.15
Bradford	2.0	2.2	2.0	2.6	2.42	2.63	2.83	2.93	2.63
Brent	0.7	0.9	1.0	0.9	0.73	0.86	0.56	1.05	0.67
Brighton and Hove	1.1	0.9	1.1	1.4	1.18	1.47	1.50	1.21	1.32
Bristol, City of	1.6	1.9	2.2	2.3	2.34	2.05	2.23	2.52	2.41
Bromley	0.6	0.6	0.6	1.1	1.10	1.09	1.00	1.13	1.16
Buckinghamshire	0.4	0.4	0.5	0.6	0.54	0.65	0.70	0.74	0.87
Bury	0.6	0.6	0.5	0.6	0.67	0.70	0.49	0.50	0.68
Calderdale	0.7	0.7	0.7	0.8	0.75	0.77	0.61	0.72	1.05
Cambridgeshire	0.7	0.8	0.8	0.8	0.77	0.81	0.80	1.04	1.02
Camden	1.8	1.6	1.5	1.6	1.41	1.58	1.17	1.38	2.25
Cheshire	0.7	0.6	0.7	0.9	0.85	0.87	0.88	1.19	1.04
Cornwall	0.4	0.5	0.4	0.4	0.40	0.50	0.79	0.69	0.83
Coventry	1.3	1.4	1.3	1.1	0.95	1.00	0.81	0.96	0.94
Croydon	0.6	0.7	0.6	0.6	0.68	1.10	1.18	1.39	1.40
Cumbria	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.7	0.75	0.82	0.94	0.97	0.94
Darlington	1.6	1.3	1.6	1.0	1.13	1.07	1.05	1.84	2.23
Derby City	0.8	0.8	0.8	1.1	1.46	125	1.71	1.79	1.66
Derbyshire	1.1	1,0	0.9	1.0	0.96	0.96	0.98	1.07	1.03
Devon	0.7	0.9	1.0	1.0	1.05	1.03	1.36	1.30	1.30
Doncaster	2.1	2.2	2.3	1.8	1.54	1.58	1.59	1.77	1.74
Dorset	0.4	0.5	0.5	0.7	0.57	0.48	0.46	0.54	0.61
Dudley	0.6	0.7	.0.7	0.6	0.69	0.86	1.00	1.25	1.51
Durham	1.5	1.3	1.1	0.8	0.73	0.69	0.68	0.8',	0.77
Ealing	1.4	1.2	1.2	1.0	1.02	0.87	0.70	0.74	0.75
East Riding of Yorkshire	0.9	0.9	0.9	0.8	0.89	0.69	0.67	0.56	0.54
East Sussex	1.3	1.1	1.2	1.2	1.41	1.35	1.41	1.34	1.35
Enfield	1.0	1.4	1.7	1.8	1.92	1.85	1.49	1.85	1.63
Essex	0.8	0.9	0.9	0.8	0.90	0.84	1.00	1.09	1.09
Gateshead	1.6	1.3	1.3	1.3	0.96	0.97	0.90	0.91	0.99
Gloucestershire	0.3	0.4	0.5	0.5	0.49	0.51	0.56	0.83	0.90
Greenwich	2.4	2.2	1.9	2.3	2.49	2.37	2.82	2.69	2.85
Hackney	2.2	2.6	2.2	3.1	2.57	2.07	1.86	1.88	1.24
Halton	1.2	1.5	1.6	2.0	2.48	2.24	2.71	2.74	1.87
Hammersmith and Fulham	2.8	2.6	2.2	2.0	1.76	1.69	1.72	1.66	1.12
Hampshire	0.8	0.8	0.8	1.0	1.13	1.07	1.06	1.23	1.20
Haringey	1.9	2.1	2.3	1.9	2.43	2.32	1.84	1.86	1.88
Harrow	0.8	0.7	0.7	0.6	0.69	0.52	0.48	0.51	0.45
Hartlepool	2.6	2.0	1.6	1.9	1.63	1.69	1.13	0.98	0.87
Havering	0.7	0.5	0.5	0.7	0.60	0.56	0.61	0.64	0.83
Herefordshire	0.6	0.8	0.7	0.6	0.81	0.80	0.99	1.05	1.38
Hertfordshire	0.6	0.7	0.6	0.7	0.91	0.75	0.75	0.77	0.77
Hillingdon	1.4	1.4	1.4	1.1	1.49	1.63	1.43	1.58	1.75
Hounslow	1.0	1.2	0.9	1.0	1.05	1.02	1.15	1.09	1.31
Isle of Wight	0.6	0.6	0.7	0.7	0.67	0.85	0.78	1.34	1.20
Isles of Scilly	0.4	1.0	0.1	—	—	—	—	—	—
Islington	2.7	2.6	2.0	2.0	1.65	1.51	1.41	1.72	1.69
Kensington and Chelsea	2.4	2.4	1.8	2.4	1.91	1.66	1.01	0.59	0.66
Kent	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.74	0.67	0.82	1.14	1.30
Kingston upon Hull, City of	3.7	3.3	2.9	2.5	2.67	2.44	2.43	2.78	2.76
Kingston upon Thames	0.8	0.9	0.9	0.6	0.57	0.51	0.33	0.61	0.58
Kirklees	1.3	1.3	1.2	1.2	1.13	1.19	1.09	1.06	1.01
Knowsley	3.1	2.8	3.1	3.1	3.06	2.84	2.10	2.19	2.19
Lambeth	1.5	0.9	1.0	1.2	0.99	0.60	0.50	0.58	0.57
Lancashire	0.8	0.9	0.8	0.8	0.82	0.82	0.88	0.93	0.95
Leeds	1.9	1.9	2.0	1.8	1.85	1.92	2.00	1.89	1.88
Leicester City	1.9	2.0	1.9	2.2	2.31	2.59	3.04	2.86	2.25
Leicestershire	1.0	1.0	1.2	1.3	1.28	1.19	1.18	1.36	1.33
Lewisham	2.6	2.5	2.9	3.5	2.68	2.38	2.49	1.91	1.84
Lincolnshire	0.9	1.0	0.8	0.7	0.73	0.78	0.83	0.85	0.69
Liverpool	2.1	1.6	1.6	1.9	1.77	1.68	1.91	2.00	1.72
London, City of	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Luton	0.9	0.7	0.9	0.7	0.63	0.79	0.74	0.85	0.91
Manchester	2.6	2.1	1.9	1.7	1.70	1.68	2.18	2.80	2.89
Medway	0.9	1.0	1.0	0.7	0.58	0.77	0.60	1.26	1.26
Merton	2.5	2.2	1.7	1.5	1.20	1.34	1.34	1.62	1.01
Middlesbrough	1.7	1.3	1.6	1.0	1.02	1.11	1.08	1.56	1.30
Milton Keynes	0.7	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.51	0.71	0.76	1.38	1.09
Newcastle upon Tyne	1.1	1.0	1.3	1.2	1.69	1.27	0.96	1.03	1.15
Newham	3.2	3.2	2.7	2.3	2.12	1.60	1.23	1.09	0.86
Norfolk	0.9	0.9	0.9	1.0	1.07	1.02	1.02	1.08	1.24
North East Lincolnshire	2.3	1.9	1.8	1.5	1.53	1.72	1.80	1.69	1.41
North Lincolnshire	1.2	1.0	1.1	0.9	1.34	0.91	0.89	0.89	0.92
North Somerset	1.1	0.9	0.7	0.8	1.05	1.13	1.03	0.79	1.05
North Tyneside	0.8	0.7	0.6	0.6	0.67	0.86	1.26	1.07	1.03
North Yorkshire	0.4	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.53	0.57	0.57	0.74	0.65
Northamptonshire	0.8	0.8	0.8	0.9	1.00	1.08	1.16	1.35	1.38
Northumberland	0.5	0.6	0.4	0.6	0.36	0.34	0.41	0.50	0.60
Nottingham City	3.9	3.0	2.9	3.1	3.08	2.37	2.26	2.07	2.59
Nottinghamshire	1.5	1.4	1.3	1.2	1.30	1.49	1.75	1.94	1.68
Oldham	1.8	1.6	1.4	1.1	1.38	1.55	1.24	1.16	1.23
Oxfordshire	1.4	1.5	1.3	1.4	1.32	1.09	1.19	1.01	0.88
Peterborough City	1.2	1.2	0.9	1.2	1.22	0.89	1.17	1.25	1.19
Plymouth	0.7	0.7	0.6	0.5	0.56	0.59	0.72	0.92	0.88
Poole	0.6	0.5	0.6	0.7	0.84	0.94	1.06	1.69	1.75
Portsmouth	1.9	1.4	1.8	1.8	1.63	1.42	1.70	1.84	1.84
Reading	1.4	1.2	0.8	1.1	1.21	1.99	2.13	1.40	1.18
Redbridge	0.4	0.4	0.6	0.5	0.73	0.69	0.94	0.93	0.92
Redcar and Cleveland	1.3	1.2	1.2	1.4	1.10	0.97	1.03	1.41	1.23
Richmond upon Thames	1.0	1.5	1.9	2.5	2.54	2.10	1.99	2.51	2.34
Rochdale	1.9	1.4	1.4	1.2	1.59	1.41	1.62	1.49	1.52
Rotherham	1.5	1.2	1.2	1.1	1.58	1.27	1.60	1.66	2.07
Rutland	0.7	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.48	0.49	0.41	0.47	0.38
Salford	1.2	1.4	1.3	1.4	1.57	2.19	2.67	2.78	2.11
Sandwell	1.8	1.6	1.5	1.1	1.71	1.56	1.94	1.82	2.12
Sefton	0.7	0.6	0.7	0.7	0.69	0.67	0.72	0.76	0.75
Sheffield	2.2	1.9	1.8	2.1	2.17	2.02	2.03	2.34	1.98
Shropshire	0.7	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.56	0.46	0.45	0.57	0.66
Slough	1.1	1.1	1.1	1.3	1.22	1.46	1.55	1.28	0.81
Solihull	0.6	0.7	0.5	0.6	0.89	0.82	0.62	0.89	0.84
Somerset	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.63	0.63	0.82	1.01	1.16
South Gloucestershire	1.1	1.1	1.4	1.2	0.96	1.25	1.09	0.90	0.86
South Tyneside	0.3	0.5	0.5	0.4	0.62	0.69	1.70	0.66	0.73
Southampton	1.1	1.1	1.1	1.1	1.31	1.18	1.19	1.87	1.77
Southend-on-Sea	1.4	1.2	1.4	1.9	1.42	1.34	1.78	1.79	1.62
Southwark	2.6	2.3	1.9	1.8	1.74	1.79	1.59	1.69	2.21
St Helens	0.5	0.6	1.0	0.9	0.91	1.13	1.07	1.55	1.42
Staffordshire	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.6	0.55	0.66	0.63	0.62	0.64
Stockport	1.3	1.2	1.0	0.9	0.95	0.82	0.94	0.99	1.30
Stockton on Tees	0.8	0.9	0.6	0.4	0.52	0.72	0.87	0.78	1.02
Stoke on Trent	1.1	1.2	1.2	1.6	1.64	1.50	1.50	2.13	1.99
Suffolk	0.5	0.5	0.6	0.6	0.89	1.08	1.32	1.29	1.37
Sunderland	1.2	1.2	1.0	0.9	0.99	0.90	1.19	1.37	0.98
Surrey	0.4	0.5	0.7	1.0	0.97	0.98	1.09	1.19	1.19
Sutton	0.3	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.89	0.66	0.69	0.67	0.78
Swindon	0.7	0.7	0.8	0.7	0.76	0.67	1.07	0.89	0.88
Tameside	1.2	1.3	1.1	1.2	1.04	0.43	0.46	0.89	1.09
Telford and Wrekin	1.0	0.8	1.0	0.9	0.63	0.51	0.61	0.95	1.06
Thurrock	1.5	1.3	1.3	1.1	0.93	1.62	1.25	1.24	1.62
Torbay	0.7	0.8	1.0	1.2	1.26	1.49	1.47	1.58	1.85
Tower Hamlets	2.8	2.2	2.5	2.6	2.41	2.03	1.97	2.42	2.05
Trafford	0.7	1.1	0.7	0.8	0.73	0.60	0.68	0.70	0.61
Wakefield	0.7	1.0	0.7	0.9	0.84	1.00	0.94	1.04	0.82
Walsall	1.0	0.9	0.8	0.7	0.82	0.86	1.09	1.14	1.27
Waltham Forest	2.3	1.8	1.4	2.0	1.72	1.37	1.57	1.74	1.37
Wandsworth	1.7	1.2	0.8	0.7	1.34	1.09	0.82	1.11	1.22
Warrington	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.6	0.64	0.65	0.81	0.93	1.10
Warwickshire	0.7	0.6	0.7	0.7	0.66	0.76	0.75	0.95	0.94
West Berkshire	0.4	0.3	0.4	0.6	0.58	0.61	0.86	0.89	0.86
West Sussex	0.6	0.7	0.7	0.8	0.88	0.75	0.73	0.92	0.76
Westminster, City of	3.2	3.9	3.1	2.4	1.76	1.59	1.95	1.77	1.98
Wigan	1.3	1.2	1.0	0.8	0.67	0.60	0.60	0.86	1.18
Wiltshire	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.7	0.65	0.60	0.73	0.88	1.01
Windsor & Maidenhead	0.4	0.5	0.6	0.6	0.65	0.72	0.75	1.00	0.84
Wirral	0.8	0.7	0.6	0.5	0.48	0.54	0.61	0.54	0.72
Wokingham	0.4	0.3	0.4	0.6	0.96	0.62	0.80	1.16	0.88
Wolverhampton	1.5	1.4	1.3	1,2	1.06	1.20	1.13	1.18	1.05
Worcestershire	0.7	0.8	0.8	0.8	0.61	0.76	0.60	0.79	0.93
York, City of	0.6	0.8	1.1	1.1	1.02	1.14	105	1.04	1.13
¹ Includes middle schools as deemed. ² Figures are only available to 1 decimal place prior to 2001-02. ³ Figures for 2005-06 are provisional.

Unauthorised absence is absence without leave from a teacher or other authorised representative of the school. This includes all unexplained or unjustified absences, such as lateness, holidays during term time not authorised by the school, absence where reason is not yet established and truancy.

Date

23 October 2006

Reference

93549; 450 c1578-88W;450 c1584-94W

House

House of Commons

Unauthorised Absence

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what his most recent estimate is of the level of persistent unauthorised absence in (a) primary and (b) secondary schools in (i) rural and (ii) non-rural areas in each year since 1997; and if he will make a statement.

Asked by

Chris Huhne (Liberal Democrat)

Answering body

Department for Education and Skills

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

23 October 2006

Reference

450 c1589W;450 c1595W; 94505

House

House of Commons

Unauthorised Absence

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills pursuant to the Answer of 6 March 2006, Official Report, column 1235W, to the hon. Member for South-West Hertfordshire (Mr. Gauke),

Asked by

John Hayes (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Education and Skills

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

16 October 2006

For answer on

18 October 2006

Answered on

23 October 2006

The £0.2 million expenditure mentioned in the previous reply on events for local authorities includes termly meetings of local authority attendance leaders in each English region. These meetings are organised and facilitated by the National Strategies’ Assistant Regional Advisors for Attendance. The purpose of each meeting is to present current developments and to share effective practice on attendance management between local authorities. A separate conference was held on 21 September 2005 for selected local authorities on improving school attendance.The eight attendance advisers who were seconded to my Department from local authorities were: Ron Collinson; Sandra Fletcher; Richard Harvey; Ken Johnson; Linda Rundle; Hilary Shaw; John Smail; and Ingvar Spencer. Their costs ranged between £32,000 and £71,000 and reflected their local authority salary. This was paid pro-rata as some of the advisers only worked for the Department on a part-time basis. Each received an amount for travel and subsistence and, in one case, for administrative support.The current Capita National Strategies Assistant Regional Advisors for Attendance team is made up of: Senior Regional Attendance Advisor: Sue Bainbridge; Current Assistant Regional Advisors for Attendance: Margaret Bleet; Heather Clapp; Chris Gabbett (from January 2007); Jean Gunning; Kenneth Hart; Colin Logan; Linda Rundle; Peter Walker; and Paul Wright. The previous Assistant Regional Advisors for Attendance were: Trevor Folley; Pippa Jackson; and Sam Penn.The salary scale for the Senior Regional Attendance Advisor is £59,963-£63,456. The salary scale for the Assistant Regional Advisors for Attendance is £51,984-£55,339.My Department does not collect pupil absence figures on a quarterly basis.£11.25 million was made available to fund electronic registration systems in around 530 secondary schools with high levels of unauthorised absence. Schools selected the system and the provider that best suited their needs. The following table shows the total amounts by supplier in grants awarded to schools.

Supplier	Total grants awarded (£)
CCM	967,060
Radun	110,430
Easy Trace	24,080
Capita	5,252,260
RM	211,420
Tasc	823,880
Pearson	108,020
Bromcom	2,634,190
Bell	68,950
Nedap	19,170
Talmos	25,590
Quinetic	67,470
Sentinel	21,390

The effectiveness of the e-registration funding was evaluated by the Centre for Educational Development, Appraisal and Research at the University of Warwick. Their report was published in May 2006 and a copy has been placed in the Library.

Date

23 October 2006

Reference

95349; 450 c1587-9W;450 c1593-5W

House

House of Commons

Truancy

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many pupils missed school due to unauthorised absence on at least one occasion in the last year for which figures are available.

Asked by

Stephen Crabb (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Education and Skills

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

12 October 2006

Reference

92875; 450 c817W;450 c823W

House

House of Commons

Truancy

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills pursuant to the answer of 24 July 2006, Official Report, column 852W, on truancy, how many pupils there were in maintained mainstream secondary schools in each year since 1997-98 in (a) rural and (b) non-rural areas; what definition of rurality...

Asked by

Chris Huhne (Liberal Democrat)

Answering body

Department for Education and Skills

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

11 September 2006

For answer on

18 September 2006

Answered on

12 October 2006

[holding answer 18 September 2006]: The pupil numbers requested are given in the following table.

Number of pupils in maintained mainstream secondary schools¹ in England
	Rural areas	Urban areas	Total
1997/98	389,283	2,620,531	3,009,814
1998/99	402,315	2,704,363	3,106,678
1999/2000	414,166	2,755,831	3,169,997
2000/01	418,311	2,789,619	3,207,930
2001/02	428,546	2,829,683	3,258.229
2002/03	435,721	2,863,511	3,299,232
2003/04	440,185	2,882,159	3,322,344
2004/05	445,273	2,880,806	3,326,079
2005/06²	446,159	2,888,092	3,334,251
¹ Includes middle schools as deemed. Excludes city technology colleges.
² Provisional.

The urban and rural classifications used in this table are based on those drawn up in 2004 by the Countryside Agency, DEFRA, ODPM, ONS and the Welsh Assembly Government. The classification is based on population densities across the whole spectrum of ‘settlements’, or built-up areas, in England and Wales. Urban areas are defined as settlements with a population of 10,000 or more. Census Output Areas (OAs) are described as urban or rural depending on whether the majority of the population falls inside a settlement of population 10,000 or more.Secondly, the classification enables areas to be defined as predominantly urban or predominantly town and fringe, predominantly village or predominantly dispersed (which includes hamlets and isolated dwellings). The town and fringe, village, hamlet and isolated dwelling classifications are taken as being rural.

Date

12 October 2006

Reference

91237; 450 c817-8W;450 c823-4W

House

House of Commons

Schools: North Tyneside

How many times Section 7 of the Education Act 1996 has been used by North Tyneside local education authority to prosecute people in the past five years.

Asked by

Lord Laird (Crossbench)

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

9 October 2006

Reference

6894; 685 c109WA

House

House of Lords

Truancy

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what his most recent estimate is of the levels of truancy in secondary schools in (a) rural and (b) non-rural areas in each year since 1997; and if he will make a statement.

Asked by

Chris Huhne (Liberal Democrat)

Answering body

Department for Education and Skills

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

12 July 2006

For answer on

14 July 2006

Answered on

24 July 2006

The Department does not hold data on pupils recorded as truant. However, the figures for the proportion of half days missed due to unauthorised absence (of which truancy forms a part) in maintained mainstream secondary schools in (a) rural and (b) non-rural areas in each year since 1997 are given in the table as follows:

Percentage of half days missed in maintained mainstream secondary schools¹ due to unauthorised absence²
	Rural areas	Non-rural areas
1997/98	0.6	1.2
1998/99	0.6	1.1
1999/2000	0.6	1.1
2000/01	0.7	1.0
2001/02	0.64	1.16
2002/03	0.64	1.14
2003/04	0.70	1.20
2004/05	0.76	1.31
¹ Includes middle schools as deemed.
² Figures are only available to 1 decimal place prior to 2001/02.

Date

24 July 2006

Reference

85944; 449 c852W;449 c851-2W

House

House of Commons

Education Act

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many times prosecutions have been brought by North Tyneside local education authority under section 7 of the Education Act 1996 in each of the last five years.

Asked by

Stephen Byers (Labour)

Answering body

Home Office

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

24 July 2006

Reference

85376; 449 c1148W

House

House of Commons

Pupil Absence

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many pupils in each London borough missed at least half a day due to unauthorised absence in (a) primary schools, (b) secondary schools, (c) special schools and (d) pupil referral units in the last year for which figures are...

Asked by

Paul Burstow (Liberal Democrat)

Answering body

Department for Education and Skills

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

10 July 2006

Reference

81714; 448 c1457W

House

House of Commons

School Attendance (Lancashire)

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what the truancy rates were for Lancashire in each year since 1997.

Asked by

Ben Wallace (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Education and Skills

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

27 June 2006

For answer on

29 June 2006

Answered on

4 July 2006

The Department does not hold data on pupils recorded as truant. However, the figures for the proportion of half days missed due to unauthorised absence (of which truancy forms a part) in maintained mainstream schools in Lancashire local authority are given in the following table:

Percentage of half days missed in maintained mainstream schools¹ in Lancashire local authority due to unauthorised absence²,³
	Primary schools	Secondary schools
1997/98	0.3	0.8
1998/99	0.4	0.9
1999/2000	0.4	0.8
2000/01	0.3	0.8
2001/02	0.34	0.82
2002/03	0.31	0.82
2003/04	0.32	0.88
2004/05	0.3	0.9
¹ Includes middle schools as deemed.
² Due to local government reorganisation, regional figures are not available prior to 1998.
³ Local authority figures are only available to 1 decimal place prior to 2000.

Date

4 July 2006

Reference

81762; 448 c1017-8W

House

House of Commons

Police and Justice Bill

I would be delighted to be satisfied by the noble Baroness, Lady Anelay, but I regret that on this occasion I cannot accept her offer. Neither can I be seduced into accepting the offer made by the noble Lord, Lord Dholakia. Amendments Nos. 86 and 87 both relate to time...

Member

Baroness Scotland of Asthal (Labour)

Type

Proceeding contributions

Date

4 July 2006

Reference

684 c193-4

House

House of Lords

Police and Justice Bill

moved Amendment No. 80: Page 2, line 14, leave out subsection (3). The noble Baroness said: In moving the amendment, I do not wish to appear ungrateful. Clause 3 removes an existing anomaly in the law whereby police authorities, unlike local authorities, cannot at present delegate any of their functions...

Member

Baroness Henig (Labour)

Type

Proceeding contributions

Date

4 July 2006

Reference

684 c159-61

House

House of Lords

Police and Justice Bill

The Minister will not be at all surprised to hear that I support the amendment tabled by the noble Baroness, Lady Henig. We support the amendment because we want to take out a subsection which once again allows the Secretary of State wide discretion to specify police authorities’ powers. Such...

Member

Baroness Harris of Richmond (Liberal Democrat)

Type

Proceeding contributions

Date

4 July 2006

Reference

684 c161

House

House of Lords

Police and Justice Bill

I am going to complete the trio of assent and support the noble Baroness, Lady Henig. When I saw her amendment on the Marshalled List, and then looked into the Explanatory Notes, it was a revelation regarding the Government’s intent. Here we have a consequence of the Government’s own plans...

Member

Baroness Anelay of St Johns (Conservative)

Type

Proceeding contributions

Date

4 July 2006

Reference

684 c161-2

House

House of Lords

Police and Justice Bill

Will the Minister explain why, if Section 107 of the 1972 Act is working effectively, it is necessary to introduce further powers? Is it again the previous argument about establishing much more control from the Home Office, rather than allowing police authorities to function as they have been doing adequately...

Member

Lord Dholakia (Liberal Democrat)

Type

Proceeding contributions

Date

4 July 2006

Reference

684 c162

House

House of Lords

Police and Justice Bill

My Lords, on these occasions one should always start with a positive, if one can. I welcome my noble friend Lady Henig’s support for Clause 3, which, as she rightly acknowledges, will allow police authorities greater flexibility to delegate their functions to area committees of the authority or to individual...

Member

Lord Bassam of Brighton (Labour)

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Proceeding contributions

Date

4 July 2006

Reference

684 c162-3

House

House of Lords

Police and Justice Bill

Two questions have arisen as a result of the Minister’s response. First, with regard to the laudable objective of not having too many bodies doing the same job, does the Minister accept that if we trust police authorities to know their patch and its needs, we should trust them to...

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Baroness Anelay of St Johns (Conservative)

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Proceeding contributions

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4 July 2006

Reference

684 c163

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House of Lords

Police and Justice Bill

I will endeavour to answer the noble Baroness’s questions as best I can. Her final point related to rapidity of response. In such a situation, there will clearly be some sensitivity. I am sure there will be a history to what has emerged; there always is. In those circumstances, the...

Member

Lord Bassam of Brighton (Labour)

Type

Proceeding contributions

Date

4 July 2006

Reference

684 c163-4

House

House of Lords

Police and Justice Bill

I do not want to be unkind to the Minister, but he was a member of a local authority when I was a member of the police authority for Sussex. If he analyses the work that the police authority did then, he will find that there were no complaints whatsoever....

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Lord Dholakia (Liberal Democrat)

Type

Proceeding contributions

Date

4 July 2006

Reference

684 c164

House

House of Lords

Police and Justice Bill

I am grateful to the Minister. As I said originally, we do not oppose the idea of street bail, but I think that we make a step-change when we apply conditions to bail. I recall my time as a magistrate—it now seems a distant memory—when one considered whether bail should...

Member

Baroness Anelay of St Johns (Conservative)

Type

Proceeding contributions

Date

4 July 2006

Reference

684 c188-9

House

House of Lords

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