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Truancy

Mr. Willis: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what the average truancy rate for secondary schools was in each year since 1997, (a) in England and (b) broken down by local education authority. [175833]

 
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Mr. Miliband [holding answer 25 May 2004]: The information requested is shown in the following table.

The table shows, for each local education authority and England, the percentage of half days missed due to unauthorised absence from 1998 to present.
Pupil absence in maintained secondary schools in England and local education authority

		Percentage half days missed due to unauthorised absence
		1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003
301	Barking and Dagenham	2.0	2.0	1.7	2.0	2.0	1.9
302	Barnet	0.8	0.9	1.1	1.3	0.9	1.0
370	Barnsley	1.9	2.0	1.9	1.3	1.6	1.4
800	Bath and North East Somerset	0.4	0.6	0.6	0.6	1.1	0.8
820	Bedfordshire	0.4	0.5	0.5	0.4	0.4	0.4
303	Bexley	0.5	0.6	1.1	1.1	1.2	0.7
330	Birmingham	1.7	1.6	1.6	1.6	1.6	1.5
889	Blackburn with Darwen	1.3	1.4	1.4	1.2	1.3	1.3
890	Blackpool	1.6	1.6	1.9	1.3	1.3	1.4
350	Bolton	1.8	1.7	1.2	1.2	1.2	1.1
837	Bournemouth	1.0	0.9	0.8	0.7	0.6	0.6
867	Bracknell Forest	0.5	1.1	0.9	1.2	0.9	0.9
380	Bradford	2.0	2.2	2.0	2.6	2.4	2.6
304	Brent	0.7	0.9	1.0	0.9	0.7	0.9
846	Brighton and Hove	1.1	0.9	1.0	1.4	1.2	1.5
801	Bristol, City of	1.6	1.9	2.2	2.3	2.3	2.1
305	Bromley	0.6	0.6	0.6	1.1	1.1	1.1
825	Buckinghamshire	0.4	0.4	0.5	0.6	0.5	0.6
351	Bury	0.6	0.6	0.5	0.6	0.7	0.7
381	Calderdale	0.7	0.7	0.7	0.8	0.8	0.8
873	Cambridgeshire	0.7	0.8	0.8	0.8	0.8	0.8
202	Camden	1.8	1.6	1.5	1.6	1.4	1.6
875	Cheshire	0.7	0.6	0.7	0.9	0.9	0.9
908	Cornwall	0.4	0.5	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.5
331	Coventry	1.3	1.4	1.3	1.1	1.0	1.0
306	Croydon	0.6	0.7	0.6	0.6	0.7	1.1
909	Cumbria	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.7	0.8	0.8
841	Darlington	1.6	1.3	1.6	1.0	1.1	1.1
831	Derby City	0.8	0.8	0.8	1.1	1.5	1.3
830	Derbyshire	1.1	1.0	0.9	1.0	1.0	1.0
878	Devon	0.7	0.9	1.0	1.0	1.1	1.0
371	Doncaster	2.1	2.2	2.3	1.8	1.5	1.6
835	Dorset	0.4	0.5	0.5	0.7	0.6	0.5
332	Dudley	0.6	0.7	0.7	0.6	0.7	0.9
840	Durham	1.5	1.3	1.1	0.8	0.7	0.7
307	Ealing	1.4	1.2	1.2	1.0	1.0	0.9
811	East Riding of Yorkshire	0.9	0.9	0.9	0.8	0.9	0.7
845	East Sussex	1.3	1.1	1.1	1.2	1.4	1.3
308	Enfield	1.0	1.4	1.7	1.8	1.9	1.9
881	Essex	0.8	0.9	0.9	0.8	0.9	0.8
390	Gateshead	1.6	1.3	1.3	1.3	1.0	1.0
916	Gloucestershire	0.3	0.4	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.5
203	Greenwich	2.4	2.2	1.9	2.3	2.5	2.4
204	Hackney	2.2	2.6	2.2	3.1	2.6	2.1
876	Halton	1.2	1.5	1.6	2.0	2.5	2.2
205	Hammersmith and Fulham	2.8	2.6	2.2	2.0	1.8	1.7
850	Hampshire	0.8	0.8	0.8	1.0	1.1	1.1
309	Haringey	1.9	2.1	2.3	1.9	2.4	2.1
310	Harrow	0.8	0.7	0.7	0.6	0.7	0.5
805	Hartlepool	2.6	2.0	1.6	1.9	1.6	1.7
311	Havering	0.7	0.5	0.5	0.7	0.6	0.6
884	Herefordshire	0.6	0.8	0.6	0.6	0.8	0.8
919	Hertfordshire	0.6	0.7	0.6	0.7	0.9	0.7
312	Hillingdon	1.4	1.4	1.4	1.1	1.5	1.6
313	Hounslow	1.0	1.2	0.9	1.0	1.1	1.0
921	Isle of Wight	0.6	0.6	0.7	0.7	0.7	0.8
420	Isles of Scilly	0.4	1.0	0.1	0.0	—	—
206	Islington	2.7	2.6	2.0	2.0	1.7	1.5
207	Kensington and Chelsea	2.4	2.4	1.8	2.4	1.9	1.7
886	Kent	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.7	0.7
810	Kingston upon Hull, City of	3.7	3.3	2.9	2.5	2.7	2.4
314	Kingston upon Thames	0.8	0.9	0.9	0.6	0.6	0.5
382	Kirklees	1.3	1.3	1.2	1.2	1.1	1.2
340	Knowsley	3.1	2.8	3.1	3.1	3.1	2.8
208	Lambeth	1.5	0.9	1.0	1.2	1.0	0.6
888	Lancashire	0.8	0.9	0.8	0.8	0.8	0.8
383	Leeds	1.9	1.9	2.0	1.8	1.9	1.9
856	Leicester City	1.9	2.0	1.9	2.2	2.3	2.6
855	Leicestershire	1.0	1.0	1.2	1.3	1.3	1.2
209	Lewisham	2.6	2.5	2.9	3.5	2.7	2.4
925	Lincolnshire	0.9	1.0	0.8	0.7	0.7	0.8
341	Liverpool	2.1	1.6	1.6	1.9	1.8	1.7
201	London, City of	—	—	—	—	—	—
821	Luton	0.9	0.7	0.9	0.7	0.6	0.8
352	Manchester	2.6	2.1	1.9	1.7	1.7	1.7
887	Medway	0.9	1.0	1.0	0.7	0.6	0.8
315	Merton	2.5	2.2	1.7	1.5	1.2	1.3
806	Middlesbrough	1.7	1.3	1.6	1.0	1.0	1.0
826	Milton Keynes	0.7	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.7
391	Newcastle upon Tyne	1.1	1.0	1.3	1.2	1.7	1.3
316	Newham	3.2	3.2	2.7	2.3	2.1	1.6
926	Norfolk	0.9	0.9	0.9	1.0	1.1	1.0
812	North East Lincolnshire	2.3	1.9	1.8	1.5	1.5	1.7
813	North Lincolnshire	1.2	1.0	1.1	0.9	1.3	0.9
802	North Somerset	1.1	0.9	0.7	0.8	1.1	1.1
392	North Tyneside	0.8	0.7	0.6	0.6	0.7	0.9
815	North Yorkshire	0.4	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.6
928	Northamptonshire	0.8	0.8	0.8	0.9	1.0	1.1
929	Northumberland	0.5	0.6	0.4	0.6	0.4	0.3
892	Nottingham City	3.9	3.0	2.9	3.1	3.1	2.4
891	Nottinghamshire	1.5	1.4	1.3	1.2	1.3	1.5
353	Oldham	1.8	1.6	1.4	1.1	1.4	1.6
931	Oxfordshire	1.4	1.5	1.3	1.4	1.3	1.1
874	Peterborough City	1.2	1.2	0.9	1.2	1.2	0.9
879	Plymouth	0.7	0.7	0.6	0.5	0.6	0.6
836	Poole	0.6	0.5	0.6	0.7	0.8	0.9
851	Portsmouth	1.9	1.4	1.8	1.8	1.6	1.4
870	Reading	1.4	1.2	0.8	1.1	1.2	2.0
317	Redbridge	0.4	0.4	0.6	0.5	0.7	0.7
807	Redcar and Cleveland	1.3	1.2	1.1	1.4	1.1	1.0
318	Richmond upon Thames	1.0	1.5	1.8	2.5	2.5	2.1
354	Rochdale	1.9	1.4	1.4	1.2	1.6	1.4
372	Rotherham	1.5	1.2	1.2	1.1	1.6	1.3
857	Rutland	0.7	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.5	0.5
355	Salford	1.2	1.4	1.3	1.4	1.6	2.2
333	Sandwell	1.8	1.6	1.5	1.1	1.7	1.6
343	Sefton	0.7	0.6	0.7	0.7	0.7	0.7
373	Sheffield	2.2	1.9	1.8	2.1	2.2	2.0
893	Shropshire	0.7	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.5
871	Slough	1.1	1.1	1.1	1.3	1.2	1.5
334	Solihull	0.6	0.7	0.5	0.6	0.9	0.8
933	Somerset	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.6	0.6
803	South Gloucestershire	1.1	1.1	1.4	1.2	1.0	1.2
393	South Tyneside	0.3	0.5	0.4	0.4	0.6	0.7
852	Southampton	1.1	1.1	1.1	1.1	1.3	1.2
882	Southend-on-Sea	1.4	1.2	1.4	1.9	1.4	1.3
210	Southwark	2.6	2.3	1.9	1.8	1.7	1.8
342	St. Helens	0.5	0.6	1.0	0.9	0.9	1.1
860	Staffordshire	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.6	0.6	0.7
356	Stockport	1.3	1.2	1.0	0.9	0.9	0.8
808	Stockton on Tees	0.8	0.9	0.6	0.4	0.5	0.7
861	Stoke on Trent	1.1	1.2	1.2	1.6	1.6	1.5
935	Suffolk	0.5	0.5	0.6	0.6	0.9	1.1
394	Sunderland	1.2	1.2	1.0	0.9	1.0	0.9
936	Surrey	0.4	0.5	0.7	1.0	1.0	1.0
319	Sutton	0.3	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.9	0.7
866	Swindon	0.7	0.7	0.8	0.7	0.8	0.7
35	Tameside	1.2	1.3	1.1	1.2	1.0	0.4
894	Telford and Wrekin	1.0	0.8	1.0	0.9	0.6	0.5
883	Thurrock	1.5	1.3	1.3	1.1	0.9	1.6
880	Torbay	0.7	0.8	1.0	1.2	1.3	1.5
211	Tower Hamlets	2.8	2.2	2.5	2.6	2.4	2.0
358	Trafford	0.7	1.1	0.7	0.8	0.7	0.6
384	Wakefield	0.7	1.0	0.7	0.9	0.8	1.0
335	Walsall	1.0	0.9	0.8	0.7	0.8	0.9
320	Waltham Forest	2.3	1.8	1.4	2.0	1.7	1.4
212	Wandsworth	1.7	1.2	0.8	0.7	1.3	1.1
877	Warrington	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.6	0.6	0.7
937	Warwickshire	0.7	0.6	0.7	0.7	0.7	0.8
869	West Berkshire	0.4	0.3	0.4	0.6	0.6	0.6
938	West Sussex	0.6	0.7	0.7	0.8	0.9	0.8
213	Westminster, City of	3.2	3.9	3.1	2.4	1.8	1.6
359	Wigan	1.3	1.2	1.0	0.8	0.7	0.6
865	Wiltshire	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.7	0.7	0.6
868	Windsor and Maidenhead	0.4	0.5	0.6	0.6	0.7	0.7
344	Wirral	0.8	0.7	0.6	0.5	0.5	0.5
872	Wokingham	0.4	0.3	0.4	0.6	1.0	0.6
336	Wolverhampton	1.5	1.4	1.3	1.2	1.1	1.2
885	Worcestershire	0.7	0.8	0.8	0.8	0.6	0.8
816	York, City of	0.6	0.8	1.1	1.1	1.0	1.1
	England	1.1	1.1	1.0	1.1	1.1	1.1

 
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Tom Cox: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many children played truant during the last 12 months at schools in the London Borough of Wandsworth. [179040]

Mr. Miliband: The information requested is as follows:
Number of pupils that missed at least a half day due to unauthorised absence in schools in London Borough of Wandsworth Local Education Authority

	Academic year (September to May) 2003
Primary schools	2,831
Secondary schools	2,322

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