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In depth data to allow the spend in each of the areas of deprivation to be determined are available from 2003-04. The revenue spend in the 20 per cent., 10 per cent. and 5 per cent. most deprived local authorities areas, as identified by the Index of Multiple Deprivation 1997 (the latest year for which data are available), is given in table B.

Table B - SSLP and Children’s Centres revenue spend 2003-04 to 2007-08 by deprivation level of area
Deprivation level	20 03/04	20 04/05	20 05/06	20 06/07	20 07/08
0 - 5% (8 Local authorities)	34,994,692	42,707,247	52,782,300	57,589,673	54,641,169
5 - 10% (7 Local authorities)	27,601,975	33,122,806	47,327,552	52,476,125	47,780,812
10 - 20% (15 Local authorities)	48,398,126	60,941,713	76,269,567	83,492,249	78,775,898
Total	110,994,793	136,771,766	176,379,420	193,558,047	181,197,879

The Sure Start local programmes received a single capital allocation. The capital spend from 1999-00 to 2007-08 is shown in table C.

Table C. SSLP and Children's Centres Capital spend from 1999 to 2007-08 by deprivation level of area
Deprivation level	Capital
0-5% (8 Local Authorities)	102,223,852
5 - 10% (7 Local Authorities)	23,043,139
10 - 20% (15 Local Authorities)	43,994,611
Total	91,799,625

Truancy

Annette Brooke: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families pursuant to the answer of 6 October 2008, Official Report, columns 518-20W, on truancy, how many (a) fathers and (b) mothers were (i) fined and (ii) imprisoned for their children’s non-attendance at school in 2007. [253395]

Sarah McCarthy-Fry: The Ministry of Justice collects data for England and Wales on prosecutions brought against parents under the Education Act 1996 for the offence under s444(1) for failing to secure their child’s regular attendance at school; and for prosecutions under s444(1A), the aggravated offence of knowing that their child is failing to attend school regularly. It is possible, because of the way courts record data that some data are collected under the more general heading of various offences under the Education Act 1996.

The information on the number of people by gender sentenced and given fines or immediate custodial sentences is detailed in the table.

The Department also separately collects for England data on penalty notices issued to parents for failing to ensure that their child attends school regularly and for the school academic year 2006/07 this was 14,625. The Department does not collect data by gender type.

Adult male and f emale sentenced for child truanting offences'( 1) , 2007
	Fined	Immediate custody
Parent failing to secure their child’s regular attendance at school'( 2)
Male	831	1
Female	2,281	5
Parent knowing that their child is failing to attend school regularly without reasonable justification to cause him or her to attend school
Male	187	3
Female	489	8
(1) These data are extracted on the principal offence basis. Note: These figures have been drawn from administrative data systems. Although care is taken when processing and analysing the returns, the detail collected is subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large scale recording system. Source: OMS Analytical Services, Ministry of Justice

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