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	Sure Start children’s centres allocations (revenue and capital) £
	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06	2006-07	2007-08	Non year specific
City of London	0	0	0	143,695	205,638	0
Camden	3,515,999	5,032,556	5,249,206	6,908,564	7,864,073	5,335,699
Greenwich	3,082,275	5,958,168	6,146,133	7,770,627	8,774,260	3,735,804
Hackney	4,482,238	8,653,578	8,899,435	11,292,810	12,016,491	7,141,093
Hammersmith and Fulham	1,866,767	2,651,341	2,757,257	4,380,396	5,295,069	2,272,153
Islington	3,574,813	6,571,362	6,816,873	8,218,011	8,712,783	5,897,520
Kensington and Chelsea	1,267,000	1,950,981	1,970,328	2,983,146	3,553,335	1,776,721
Lambeth	3,792,759	7,576,234	7,782,699	10,186,071	11,459,087	4,151,380
Lewisham	3,287,622	6,183,562	6,368,766	8,861,044	10,133,921	3,196,646
Southwark	4,774,849	8,702,001	8,964,062	10,591,698	11,511,562	6,762,437
Tower Hamlets	4,351,054	8,164,307	8,341,668	9,922,615	10,819,977	3,299,427
Wandsworth	1,333,200	1,877,290	2,026,699	5,096,228	7,069,865	2,190,676
Westminster	1,808,869	2,835,848	2,996,467	4,600,314	5,492,550	2,527,499
Barking and Dagenham	2,125,370	4,648,575	4,816,102	6,814,406	7,815,938	3,931,000
Barnet	481,505	846,740	957,740	4,510,116	7,083,859	800,000
Bexley	750,000	1,493,078	1,512,297	3,196,283	4,522,070	869,859
Brent	2,237,633	3,950,008	4,006,272	5,778,884	6,957,445	3,977,413
Bromley	691,390	1,103,613	1,121,330	3,932,335	6,085,018	1,075,000
Croydon	755,000	1,408,751	1,428,098	5,940,669	9,055,468	1,069,687
Ealing	1,534,194	3,055,072	3,093,617	6,217,609	8,314,283	2,150,000
Enfield	1,311,845	3,227,226	3,260,842	5,481,481	7,115,677	623,183
Haringey	3,397,961	6,356,228	6,567,685	8,493,589	9,667,008	5,495,244
Harrow	0	0	0	1,821,593	3,049,062	0
Havering	753,000	1,235,755	1,254,846	2,812,661	4,056,151	358,511
Hillingdon	761,221	909,057	927,922	3,801,144	5,957,258	1,178,583
Hounslow	744,600	1,316,927	1,336,007	4,574,088	6,448,632	1,074,454
Kingston Upon Thames	0	0	0	1,250,720	2,160,587	0
Merton	594,500	833,910	833,910	2,704,592	4,064,425	1,075,000
Newham	5,247,279	10,569,316	10,835,683	13,442,938	14,646,199	5,358,193
Redbridge	844,800	1,680,091	1,701,739	3,767,978	5,194,369	1,189,290
Richmond upon Thames	0	0	0	1,572,478	2,750,330	0
Sutton	503,225	1,071,284	1,196,284	2,758,736	3,959,637	111,000
Waltham Forest	2,388,450	5,398,257	5,567,012	7,403,546	8,860,991	3,660,203
Total	62,259,418	115,261,115	118,736,978	187,231,070	230,673,019	82,283,675

Truancy

Mr. Duncan Smith: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many unauthorised absences there were from schools in the last year for which records are available. [179823]

Kevin Brennan: The latest available information relates to autumn term 2006 and spring term 2007, for primary schools 4,361,430 half days were missed due to unauthorised absence, for all secondary schools (including city technology colleges and academies) 10,973,640 half days were missed due to unauthorised absence.

The latest available rates for pupil absence are shown in the table.

Maintained primary and secondary schools, city technology colleges and academies( 1) , pupil absence by type of school, autumn term 2006 and spring term 2007, England
			Percentage of half days missed( 2)
	Number of day pupils of compulsory school age( 3)	Number of pupil enrolments( 4, 5)	Authorised absence	Unauthorised absence	Overall absence	Overall absence autumn term 2005 and spring term 2006( 6)
Maintained Primary Schools	3,306,940	3,428,390	4.73	0.52	5.26	n/a
Secondary Schools(7)	2,954,940	3,016,240	6.30	1.48	7.78	8.16
Total	6,261,870	6,444,630	5.47	0.97	6.44	n/a
n/a = Not available. (1) Includes middle schools as deemed. (2) The number of sessions missed due to authorised/unauthorised/overall absence expressed as a percentage of the total number of possible sessions. (3) Pupil numbers are as at January 2007. Includes pupils aged five to 15 with sole and dual (main) registration. Excludes boarders. (4) Number of pupil enrolments in schools between 1 September 2006 and 9 April 2007. Includes pupils on the school roll for at least one session who are aged between five and 15, excluding boarders. Some pupils may be counted more than once (if they moved schools during the school year or are registered in more than one school). (5) There were some 32,498 cases from primary schools, 17,238 cases from maintained secondary schools, CTS and academies for whom absence data were missing. These cases have been excluded from the total number of pupil enrolments. (6) The overall absence rate, including both authorised and unauthorised absence for autumn term 2005 and spring term 2006. (7) Includes maintained secondary schools, city technology colleges and academies. Note: Totals may not appear to equal the sum of the component parts because numbers have been rounded to the nearest 10. Source: School Census.

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