Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate he has made of the number of (a) pupils and (b) teachers absent from (i) primary schools, (ii) secondary schools and (iii) special schools in each (A) i) region and (B) local authority area in the latest period for which information is available; and if he will publish that data on a monthly basis.
The Department will place pupil attendance and school closure statistics for 15 October in the Libraries of both Houses. It should be noted that these statistics are for schools who have submitted a response in the education settings status form only. This data can be viewed in the attached table.
While the official statistics series for this data applies an adjustment for non-responding schools, data at more local levels, including at regional and local authority levels, is based only on the data from responding schools. We are currently looking at the quality of the teacher attendance data with a view to publishing as part of the official statistics series.