Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many fixed penalty notices have been handed out for school non-attendance in (a) Lincolnshire and (b) England in each of the last five years.

The department collects information from local authorities on penalty notices issued for unauthorised absence. This is published in the statistical release on parental responsibility measures and can be accessed at: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/parental-responsibility-measures.

The numbers of penalty notices issued in Lincolnshire and England can be found here: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/169aa7d0-a3ce-44bc-0f1d-08dd167ca495.

No data was collected for 2019/20 due to the pandemic. Attendance at school was heavily disrupted in 2020/21 and for two months measures were disapplied when schools were not open to all pupils.