Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will enable (a) schools and (b) education authorities to impose penalties on parents that do not permit their children to return to school on account of a fear of contracting covid-19; and if he will make a statement.

Parents of pupils not currently in school due to closures will not be penalised, and there are no current plans for this to change when schools begin to reopen.