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Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Education – in the House of Commons at on 11 March 2019.

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Photo of Nick Gibb Nick Gibb Minister of State (Education)

Parents have a duty to ensure that their children who are registered at school attend regularly. We have not formally assessed the impact of penalty notices, but comparable data shows that overall absence rates have remained stable in recent years following a downward trend since 2006—a 6.5% absence rate in 2006 fell to 4.7% in 2016.