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To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what proportion of half days were missed due to unauthorised absence in maintained secondary schools in (a) rural and (b) non-rural areas in 2005-06; how many students accounted for days missed in each category for CETTS; and if he will...

Asked by

Chris Huhne (Liberal Democrat)

Answering body

Department for Education and Skills

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

8 December 2006

For answer on

12 December 2006

Answered on

8 January 2007

The figures for the proportion of half days missed due to unauthorised absence in maintained mainstream secondary schools in (a) rural and (b) non-rural areas in 2005-06 are given in the following tables:

Percentage of half days missed in maintained mainstream secondary schools¹ due to unauthorised absence² in 2005/06
	Percentage
Rural areas	0.75
Non-rural areas	1.28
¹ Includes middle schools as deemed. ² Figures are provisional. Note: Schools have been allocated as being in either an urban or rural area by matching the school postcode to the Rural and Urban Area Classification 2004 indicator held within the May 2005 National Statistics Postcode Directory.

Number¹ of pupils in maintained mainstream secondary schools² who missed at least one half day in 2005/06
	Number
Rural areas	92,800
Non-rural areas	687,800
¹ Figures are given to the nearest hundred. ² Includes middle schools as deemed. Note: Schools have been allocated as being in either an urban or rural area by matching the school postcode to the Rural and Urban Area Classification 2004 indicator held within the May 2005 National Statistics Postcode Directory.

Unauthorised absence is absence without leave from a teacher or other authorised representative of the school. This includes all unexplained or unjustified absences, such as lateness, holidays during term time not authorised by the school, absence where reason is not yet established and truancy.

Date

8 January 2007

Reference

108961; 455 c247W;455 c245W

House

House of Commons

Unauthorised Absence

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what levels of truancy were in (a) primary and (b) secondary schools in each year since 1997, broken down by local education authority; and if he will make a statement.

Asked by

Chris Huhne (Liberal Democrat)

Answering body

Department for Education and Skills

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

10 October 2006

For answer on

12 October 2006

Answered on

23 October 2006

The Department does not hold data on pupils recorded as truant. However, the figures for the proportion of half days missed due to unauthorised absence (of which truancy forms a part) in maintained mainstream primary schools and maintained mainstream secondary schools in each year since 1997, broken down by local authority are given in the following tables.

Percentage of half days missed in maintained mainstream primary schools¹ due to unauthorised absence²
Local authority	1997-98	1998-99	1999-2000	2000-01	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06³
Barking and Dagenham	1.2	1.4	1.4	1.4	1.52	1.37	1.34	1.27	1.22
Barnet	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.6	0.64	0.56	0.65	0.74	0.54
Barnsley	0.7	0.8	0.8	0.8	0.77	0.75	0.53	0.63	0.78
Bath and North East Somerset	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.33	0.32	0.32	0.28	0.34
Bedfordshire	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.2	0.21	0.21	0.17	0.22	0.25
Bexley	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.36	0.35	0.33	0.44	0.54
Birmingham	0.8	0.8	0.8	0.7	0.67	0.65	0.64	0.64	0.74
Blackburn with Darwen	0.7	0.7	0.5	0.5	0.46	0.45	0.50	0.40	0.46
Blackpool	0.8	0.7	0.8	0.8	0.86	0.68	0.71	0.73	0.61
Bolton	0.3	0.3	0.2	0.3	0.37	0.33	0.33	0.37	0.51
Bournemouth	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.3	0.24	0.20	0.21	0.27	0.25
Bracknell Forest	0.3	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.22	0.15	0.16	0.17	0.23
Bradford	1.1	1.1	0.9	0.9	0.76	0.69	0.70	0.82	0.95
Brent	0.8	0.7	0.6	0.6	0.49	0.41	0.55	0.54	0.59
Brighton and Hove	0.7	0.7	0.6	0.6	0.54	0.55	0.51	0.59	0.48
Bristol, City of	1.0	1.0	0.9	1.0	0.92	0.93	0.89	0.90	0.91
Bromley	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.40	0.43	0.60	0.53	0.68
Buckinghamshire	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.25	0.27	0.24	0.28	0.27
Bury	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.42	0.28	0.25	0.21	0.22
Calderdale	0.4	0.4	0.3	0.3	0.25	0.31	0.30	0.38	0.30
Cambridgeshire	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.33	0.34	0.39	0.39	0.46
Camden	1.1	1.3	1.2	1.3	1.10	0.77	0.56	0.57	0.60
Cheshire	0.4	0.4	0.3	0.4	0.34	0.38	0.39	0.40	0.39
Cornwall	0.4	0.4	0.3	0.3	0.36	0.30	0.32	0.39	0.39
Coventry	0.4	0.5	0.4	0.3	0.29	0.22	0.31	0.26	0.28
Croydon	0.6	0.7	0.5	0.7	0.55	0.69	0.73	0.63	0.67
Cumbria	0.2	0.1	0.2	0.2	0.20	0.21	0.17	0.16	0.15
Darlington	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.29	0.18	0.33	0.33	0.39
Derby City	0.8	0.7	0.7	0.7	0.76	0.61	0.60	0.67	0.75
Derbyshire	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.4	0.43	0.41	0.36	0.38	0.36
Devon	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.26	0.25	0.26	0.24	0.24
Doncaster	0.4	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.50	0.40	0.31	0.32	0.43
Dorset	0.4	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.31	0.25	0.25	0.24	0.29
Dudley	0.2	0.3	0.3	0.4	0.32	0.37	0.28	0.34	0.39
Durham	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.14	0.10	0.12	0.15	0.15
Ealing	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.3	0.25	0.22	0.27	0.26	0.33
East Riding of Yorkshire	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.19	0.19	0.13	0.12	0.12
East Sussex	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.5	0.37	0.41	0.53	0.77	0.71
Enfield	0.9	1.0	1.1	1.2	1.11	1.11	0.81	0.75	0.71
Essex	0.4	0.4	0.3	0.4	0.35	0.37	0.37	0.33	0.38
Gateshead	0.5	0.5	0.4	0.4	0.35	0.26	0.27	0.23	0.22
Gloucestershire	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.2	0.24	0.24	0.23	0.26	0.24
Greenwich	1.7	1.6	1.4	1.3	1.38	1.45	1.24	1.16	1.33
Hackney	1.3	1.5	1.5	1.6	1.36	1.36	1.16	1.04	1.13
Halton	0.7	0.7	0.7	0.8	0.57	0.46	0.44	0.47	0.53
Hammersmith and Fulham	1.3	1.4	1.2	0.9	0.61	0.76	0.70	0.62	0.80
Hampshire	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.4	0.36	0.33	0.30	0.29	0.29
Haringey	1.4	1.4	2.0	1.7	1.62	1.39	1.13	1.21	1.09
Harrow	0.5	0.4	0.5	0.4	0.32	0.21	0.17	0.14	0.17
Hartlepool	0.5	0.7	0.8	0.8	0.76	0.80	0.60	0.51	0.51
Havering	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.21	0.24	0.22	0.27	0.32
Herefordshire	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.3	0.18	0.19	0.20	0.22	0.25
Hertfordshire	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.37	0.34	0.32	0.33	0.35
Hillingdon	0.8	1.0	0.9	0.8	0.71	0.67	0.58	0.55	0.59
Hounslow	0.9	0.8	0.9	1.1	1.03	1.19	1.16	1.08	1.10
Isle of Wight	0.1	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.20	0.12	0.10	0.12	0.17
Isles of Scilly	0.1	0.0	0.2	—	—	0.70	0.42	0.87	0.21
Islington	1.1	1.2	1.2	1.1	1.20	1.26	0.96	0.81	0.72
Kensington and Chelsea	1.4	1.3	0.9	1.1	0.89	0.59	0.40	0.35	0.46
Kent	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.37	0.37	0.36	0.43	0.47
Kingston upon Hull, City of	0.8	0.9	0.8	0.8	0.68	0.65	0.55	0.57	0.63
Kingston upon Thames	0.3	0.3	0.4	0.3	0.25	0.22	0.23	0.29	0.24
Kirklees	0.8	0.7	0.6	0.6	0.48	0.41	0.40	0.35	0.35
Knowsley	0.6	0.7	0.7	0.8	0.69	0.64	0.75	0.66	0.78
Lambeth	1.3	1.2	1.1	1.2	1.07	1.07	0.97	1.01	0.98
Lancashire	0.3	0.4	0.4	0.3	0.34	0.31	0.32	0.34	0.35
Leeds	0.7	0.6	0.5	0.6	0.47	0.43	0.39	0.39	0.44
Leicester City	0.6	0.6	0.5	0.7	0.64	0.71	0.71	0.70	0.74
Leicestershire	0.1	0.1	0.2	0.2	0.17	0.17	0.18	0.20	0.21
Lewisham	1.3	1.3	1.5	1.7	1.35	1.06	0.97	1.09	1.09
Lincolnshire	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.33	0.28	0.29	0.26	0.24
Liverpool	0.8	0.8	0.6	0.6	0.53	0.52	0.48	0.45	0.48
London, City of	1.9	1.6	1.9	0.9	0.32	0.00	0.29	0.03	0.03
Luton	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.58	0.53	0.50	0.55	0.67
Manchester	1.2	1.0	0.9	1.0	0.88	0.83	0.85	0.93	1.05
Medway	0.5	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.36	0.30	0.31	0.37	0.35
Merton	0.8	0.8	0.6	0.5	0.38	0.35	0.33	0.39	0.27
Middlesbrough	0.5	0.5	0.6	0.5	0.35	0.37	0.42	0.49	0.49
Milton Keynes	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.3	0.35	0.29	0.22	0.24	0.25
Newcastle upon Tyne	0.6	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.51	0.49	0.38	0.41	0.47
Newham	2.0	1.7	1.7	1.7	1.53	1.04	0.71	0.76	0.91
Norfolk	0.4	0.4	0.5	0.5	0.46	0.45	0.41	0.42	0.41
North East Lincolnshire	0.2	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.19	0.23	0.23	0.24	0.22
North Lincolnshire	0.3	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.28	0.22	0.22	0.31	0.33
North Somerset	0.2	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.23	0.31	0.26	0.28	0.27
North Tyneside	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.11	0.12	0.17	0.18	0.20
North Yorkshire	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.17	0.16	0.17	0.18	0.22
Northamptonshire	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.44	0.39	0.38	0.42	0.44
Northumberland	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.2	0.21	0.19	0.19	0.19	0.26
Nottingham City	1.2	1.1	1.0	0.8	0.75	0.70	0.62	0.68	0.68
Nottinghamshire	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.42	0.39	0.35	0.36	0.34
Oldham	0.6	0.7	0.5	0.5	0.44	0.46	0.41	0.39	0.40
Oxfordshire	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.32	0.29	0.26	0.30	0.28
Peterborough City	0.5	0.5	0.7	0.6	0.50	0.51	0.49	0.47	0.51
Plymouth	0.5	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.29	0.26	0.26	0.25	0.29
Poole	0.6	0.6	0.5	0.5	0.50	0.47	0.46	0.42	0.49
Portsmouth	0.8	0.8	0.8	0.8	0.74	0.82	0.73	0.75	0.69
Reading	1.0	1.0	0.9	0.8	0.56	0.43	0.46	0.51	0.53
Redbridge	0.8	0.8	0.8	0.9	0.76	0.77	0.77	0.80	0.93
Redcar and Cleveland	0.3	0.2	0.2	0.3	0.22	0.25	0.25	0.30	0.32
Richmond upon Thames	0.1	0.2	0.3	0.3	0.27	0.32	0.35	0.44	0.53
Rochdale	0.5	0.4	0.4	0.5	0.49	0.57	0.70	0.75	0.70
Rotherham	0.6	0.7	0.7	0.6	0.55	0.46	0.40	0.45	0.66
Rutland	0.0	0.0	0.1	0.1	0.19	0.15	0.07	0.05	0.05
Salford	1.1	0.8	0.6	0.6	0.51	0.43	0.59	0.66	0.71
Sandwell	0.4	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.44	0.47	0.48	0.51	0.64
Sefton	0.3	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.23	0.22	0.20	0.28	0.40
Sheffield	1.1	1.0	1.0	0.9	0.77	0.66	0.64	0.69	0.71
Shropshire	0.2	0.2	0.1	0.1	0.13	0.13	0.13	0.14	0.17
Slough	0.6	0.8	0.9	0.8	0.70	0.75	0.79	0.87	1.11
Solihull	0.1	0.2	0.2	0.3	0.24	0.31	0.36	0.43	0.46
Somerset	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.3	0.28	0.27	0.26	0.32	0.47
South Gloucestershire	0.2	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.29	0.27	0.21	0.24	0.23
South Tyneside	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.2	0.11	0.15	0.20	0.19	0.22
Southampton	0.9	1.0	0.8	0.9	0.77	0.60	0.66	0.75	0.74
Southend-on-Sea	0.7	0.5	0.7	0.6	0.67	0.60	0.40	0.43	0.37
Southwark	1.7	1.6	1.6	1.7	1.78	1.74	1.61	1.34	1.25
St. Helens	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.3	0.39	0.35	0.33	0.39	0.46
Staffordshire	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.24	0.22	0.19	0.19	0.22
Stockport	0.4	0.4	0.5	0.4	0.39	0.31	0.30	0.27	0.29
Stockton on Tees	0.1	0.2	0.1	0.2	0.14	0.21	0.22	0.29	0.35
Stoke on Trent	0.5	0.6	0.5	0.6	0.69	0.74	0.67	0.67	0.77
Suffolk	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.26	0.25	0.27	0.31	0.33
Sunderland	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.1	0.16	0.18	0.21	0.23	0.29
Surrey	0.2	0.2	0.3	0.3	0.31	0.29	0.25	0.28	0.28
Sutton	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.41	0.26	0.31	0.37	0.51
Swindon	0.5	0.4	0.4	0.2	0.23	0.20	0.23	0.30	0.39
Tameside	0.3	0.3	0.2	0.2	0.24	0.36	0.32	0.27	0.33
Telford and Wrekin	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.4	0.28	0.27	0.29	0.22	0.23
Thurrock	0.8	0.8	0.6	0.7	0.54	0.53	0.57	0.68	0.66
Torbay	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.4	0.36	0.34	0.35	0.29	0.30
Tower Hamlets	1.7	1.4	1.5	1.5	1.38	1.20	1.19	1.22	1.27
Trafford	0.3	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.17	0.17	0.18	0.19	0.12
Wakefield	0.7	0.7	0.6	0.5	0.51	0.55	0.55	0.53	0.50
Walsall	0.8	0.6	0.7	0.5	0.47	0.47	0.40	0.39	0.44
Waltham Forest	0.8	0.7	0.7	0.7	0.53	0.54	0.68	0.53	0.63
Wandsworth	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.56	0.58	0.57	0.57	0.64
Warrington	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.31	0.33	0.47	0.52	0.67
Warwickshire	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.16	0.20	0.19	0.16	0.18
West Berkshire	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.3	0.36	0.30	0.31	0.34	0.30
West Sussex	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.3	0.26	0.25	0.21	0.23	0.24
Westminster, City of	1.1	1.4	0.9	0.9	0.77	0.62	0.51	0.68	0.87
Wigan	0.3	0.4	0.3	0.3	0.25	0.25	0.24	0.28	0.31
Wiltshire	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.30	0.30	0.31	0.30	0.31
Windsor and Maidenhead	0.3	0.3	0.4	0.3	0.28	0.34	0.40	0.37	0.29
Wirral	0.5	0.5	0.4	0.4	0.39	0.41	0.30	0.27	0.26
Wokingham	0.3	0.2	0.3	0.3	0.21	0.20	0.21	0.25	0.26
Wolverhampton	0.9	0.8	0.7	0.6	0.44	0.49	0.51	0.51	0.56
Worcestershire	0.4	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.17	0.19	0.23	0.22	0.27
York, City of	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.41	0.45	0.32	0.30	0.38

Percentage of half days missed in maintained mainstream secondary schools¹ due to unauthorised absence²
Local authority	1997-98	1998-99	1999-2000	2000-01	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06³
Barking and Dagenham	2.0	2.0	1.7	2.0	2.04	1.91	1.93	2.00	1.57
Barnet	0.8	0.9	1.1	1.3	0.95	0.97	1.07	1.01	0.90
Barnsley	1.9	2.0	1.9	1.3	1.56	1.38	1.35	1.50	1.99
Bath and North East Somerset	0.4	0.6	0.6	0.6	1.08	0.83	0.83	0.95	0.98
Bedfordshire	0.4	0.5	0.5	0.4	0.41	0.42	0.42	0.68	0.50
Bexley	0.5	0.6	1.1	1.1	1.19	0.75	1.11	0.71	1.12
Birmingham	1.7	1.6	1.6	1.6	1.62	1.50	1.59	1.42	1.39
Blackburn with Darwen	1.3	1.4	1.4	1.2	1.34	1.26	1.13	1.03	1.30
Blackpool	1.6	1.6	1.9	1.3	1.33	1.37	1.88	1.70	1.91
Bolton	1.8	1.7	1.2	1.2	1.19	1.14	1.37	1.85	1.59
Bournemouth	1.0	0.9	0.8	0.7	0.55	0.59	0.66	1.30	0.59
Bracknell Forest	0.5	1.1	0.9	1.2	0.90	0.87	0.70	0.82	1.15
Bradford	2.0	2.2	2.0	2.6	2.42	2.63	2.83	2.93	2.63
Brent	0.7	0.9	1.0	0.9	0.73	0.86	0.56	1.05	0.67
Brighton and Hove	1.1	0.9	1.1	1.4	1.18	1.47	1.50	1.21	1.32
Bristol, City of	1.6	1.9	2.2	2.3	2.34	2.05	2.23	2.52	2.41
Bromley	0.6	0.6	0.6	1.1	1.10	1.09	1.00	1.13	1.16
Buckinghamshire	0.4	0.4	0.5	0.6	0.54	0.65	0.70	0.74	0.87
Bury	0.6	0.6	0.5	0.6	0.67	0.70	0.49	0.50	0.68
Calderdale	0.7	0.7	0.7	0.8	0.75	0.77	0.61	0.72	1.05
Cambridgeshire	0.7	0.8	0.8	0.8	0.77	0.81	0.80	1.04	1.02
Camden	1.8	1.6	1.5	1.6	1.41	1.58	1.17	1.38	2.25
Cheshire	0.7	0.6	0.7	0.9	0.85	0.87	0.88	1.19	1.04
Cornwall	0.4	0.5	0.4	0.4	0.40	0.50	0.79	0.69	0.83
Coventry	1.3	1.4	1.3	1.1	0.95	1.00	0.81	0.96	0.94
Croydon	0.6	0.7	0.6	0.6	0.68	1.10	1.18	1.39	1.40
Cumbria	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.7	0.75	0.82	0.94	0.97	0.94
Darlington	1.6	1.3	1.6	1.0	1.13	1.07	1.05	1.84	2.23
Derby City	0.8	0.8	0.8	1.1	1.46	125	1.71	1.79	1.66
Derbyshire	1.1	1,0	0.9	1.0	0.96	0.96	0.98	1.07	1.03
Devon	0.7	0.9	1.0	1.0	1.05	1.03	1.36	1.30	1.30
Doncaster	2.1	2.2	2.3	1.8	1.54	1.58	1.59	1.77	1.74
Dorset	0.4	0.5	0.5	0.7	0.57	0.48	0.46	0.54	0.61
Dudley	0.6	0.7	.0.7	0.6	0.69	0.86	1.00	1.25	1.51
Durham	1.5	1.3	1.1	0.8	0.73	0.69	0.68	0.8',	0.77
Ealing	1.4	1.2	1.2	1.0	1.02	0.87	0.70	0.74	0.75
East Riding of Yorkshire	0.9	0.9	0.9	0.8	0.89	0.69	0.67	0.56	0.54
East Sussex	1.3	1.1	1.2	1.2	1.41	1.35	1.41	1.34	1.35
Enfield	1.0	1.4	1.7	1.8	1.92	1.85	1.49	1.85	1.63
Essex	0.8	0.9	0.9	0.8	0.90	0.84	1.00	1.09	1.09
Gateshead	1.6	1.3	1.3	1.3	0.96	0.97	0.90	0.91	0.99
Gloucestershire	0.3	0.4	0.5	0.5	0.49	0.51	0.56	0.83	0.90
Greenwich	2.4	2.2	1.9	2.3	2.49	2.37	2.82	2.69	2.85
Hackney	2.2	2.6	2.2	3.1	2.57	2.07	1.86	1.88	1.24
Halton	1.2	1.5	1.6	2.0	2.48	2.24	2.71	2.74	1.87
Hammersmith and Fulham	2.8	2.6	2.2	2.0	1.76	1.69	1.72	1.66	1.12
Hampshire	0.8	0.8	0.8	1.0	1.13	1.07	1.06	1.23	1.20
Haringey	1.9	2.1	2.3	1.9	2.43	2.32	1.84	1.86	1.88
Harrow	0.8	0.7	0.7	0.6	0.69	0.52	0.48	0.51	0.45
Hartlepool	2.6	2.0	1.6	1.9	1.63	1.69	1.13	0.98	0.87
Havering	0.7	0.5	0.5	0.7	0.60	0.56	0.61	0.64	0.83
Herefordshire	0.6	0.8	0.7	0.6	0.81	0.80	0.99	1.05	1.38
Hertfordshire	0.6	0.7	0.6	0.7	0.91	0.75	0.75	0.77	0.77
Hillingdon	1.4	1.4	1.4	1.1	1.49	1.63	1.43	1.58	1.75
Hounslow	1.0	1.2	0.9	1.0	1.05	1.02	1.15	1.09	1.31
Isle of Wight	0.6	0.6	0.7	0.7	0.67	0.85	0.78	1.34	1.20
Isles of Scilly	0.4	1.0	0.1	—	—	—	—	—	—
Islington	2.7	2.6	2.0	2.0	1.65	1.51	1.41	1.72	1.69
Kensington and Chelsea	2.4	2.4	1.8	2.4	1.91	1.66	1.01	0.59	0.66
Kent	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.74	0.67	0.82	1.14	1.30
Kingston upon Hull, City of	3.7	3.3	2.9	2.5	2.67	2.44	2.43	2.78	2.76
Kingston upon Thames	0.8	0.9	0.9	0.6	0.57	0.51	0.33	0.61	0.58
Kirklees	1.3	1.3	1.2	1.2	1.13	1.19	1.09	1.06	1.01
Knowsley	3.1	2.8	3.1	3.1	3.06	2.84	2.10	2.19	2.19
Lambeth	1.5	0.9	1.0	1.2	0.99	0.60	0.50	0.58	0.57
Lancashire	0.8	0.9	0.8	0.8	0.82	0.82	0.88	0.93	0.95
Leeds	1.9	1.9	2.0	1.8	1.85	1.92	2.00	1.89	1.88
Leicester City	1.9	2.0	1.9	2.2	2.31	2.59	3.04	2.86	2.25
Leicestershire	1.0	1.0	1.2	1.3	1.28	1.19	1.18	1.36	1.33
Lewisham	2.6	2.5	2.9	3.5	2.68	2.38	2.49	1.91	1.84
Lincolnshire	0.9	1.0	0.8	0.7	0.73	0.78	0.83	0.85	0.69
Liverpool	2.1	1.6	1.6	1.9	1.77	1.68	1.91	2.00	1.72
London, City of	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Luton	0.9	0.7	0.9	0.7	0.63	0.79	0.74	0.85	0.91
Manchester	2.6	2.1	1.9	1.7	1.70	1.68	2.18	2.80	2.89
Medway	0.9	1.0	1.0	0.7	0.58	0.77	0.60	1.26	1.26
Merton	2.5	2.2	1.7	1.5	1.20	1.34	1.34	1.62	1.01
Middlesbrough	1.7	1.3	1.6	1.0	1.02	1.11	1.08	1.56	1.30
Milton Keynes	0.7	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.51	0.71	0.76	1.38	1.09
Newcastle upon Tyne	1.1	1.0	1.3	1.2	1.69	1.27	0.96	1.03	1.15
Newham	3.2	3.2	2.7	2.3	2.12	1.60	1.23	1.09	0.86
Norfolk	0.9	0.9	0.9	1.0	1.07	1.02	1.02	1.08	1.24
North East Lincolnshire	2.3	1.9	1.8	1.5	1.53	1.72	1.80	1.69	1.41
North Lincolnshire	1.2	1.0	1.1	0.9	1.34	0.91	0.89	0.89	0.92
North Somerset	1.1	0.9	0.7	0.8	1.05	1.13	1.03	0.79	1.05
North Tyneside	0.8	0.7	0.6	0.6	0.67	0.86	1.26	1.07	1.03
North Yorkshire	0.4	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.53	0.57	0.57	0.74	0.65
Northamptonshire	0.8	0.8	0.8	0.9	1.00	1.08	1.16	1.35	1.38
Northumberland	0.5	0.6	0.4	0.6	0.36	0.34	0.41	0.50	0.60
Nottingham City	3.9	3.0	2.9	3.1	3.08	2.37	2.26	2.07	2.59
Nottinghamshire	1.5	1.4	1.3	1.2	1.30	1.49	1.75	1.94	1.68
Oldham	1.8	1.6	1.4	1.1	1.38	1.55	1.24	1.16	1.23
Oxfordshire	1.4	1.5	1.3	1.4	1.32	1.09	1.19	1.01	0.88
Peterborough City	1.2	1.2	0.9	1.2	1.22	0.89	1.17	1.25	1.19
Plymouth	0.7	0.7	0.6	0.5	0.56	0.59	0.72	0.92	0.88
Poole	0.6	0.5	0.6	0.7	0.84	0.94	1.06	1.69	1.75
Portsmouth	1.9	1.4	1.8	1.8	1.63	1.42	1.70	1.84	1.84
Reading	1.4	1.2	0.8	1.1	1.21	1.99	2.13	1.40	1.18
Redbridge	0.4	0.4	0.6	0.5	0.73	0.69	0.94	0.93	0.92
Redcar and Cleveland	1.3	1.2	1.2	1.4	1.10	0.97	1.03	1.41	1.23
Richmond upon Thames	1.0	1.5	1.9	2.5	2.54	2.10	1.99	2.51	2.34
Rochdale	1.9	1.4	1.4	1.2	1.59	1.41	1.62	1.49	1.52
Rotherham	1.5	1.2	1.2	1.1	1.58	1.27	1.60	1.66	2.07
Rutland	0.7	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.48	0.49	0.41	0.47	0.38
Salford	1.2	1.4	1.3	1.4	1.57	2.19	2.67	2.78	2.11
Sandwell	1.8	1.6	1.5	1.1	1.71	1.56	1.94	1.82	2.12
Sefton	0.7	0.6	0.7	0.7	0.69	0.67	0.72	0.76	0.75
Sheffield	2.2	1.9	1.8	2.1	2.17	2.02	2.03	2.34	1.98
Shropshire	0.7	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.56	0.46	0.45	0.57	0.66
Slough	1.1	1.1	1.1	1.3	1.22	1.46	1.55	1.28	0.81
Solihull	0.6	0.7	0.5	0.6	0.89	0.82	0.62	0.89	0.84
Somerset	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.63	0.63	0.82	1.01	1.16
South Gloucestershire	1.1	1.1	1.4	1.2	0.96	1.25	1.09	0.90	0.86
South Tyneside	0.3	0.5	0.5	0.4	0.62	0.69	1.70	0.66	0.73
Southampton	1.1	1.1	1.1	1.1	1.31	1.18	1.19	1.87	1.77
Southend-on-Sea	1.4	1.2	1.4	1.9	1.42	1.34	1.78	1.79	1.62
Southwark	2.6	2.3	1.9	1.8	1.74	1.79	1.59	1.69	2.21
St Helens	0.5	0.6	1.0	0.9	0.91	1.13	1.07	1.55	1.42
Staffordshire	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.6	0.55	0.66	0.63	0.62	0.64
Stockport	1.3	1.2	1.0	0.9	0.95	0.82	0.94	0.99	1.30
Stockton on Tees	0.8	0.9	0.6	0.4	0.52	0.72	0.87	0.78	1.02
Stoke on Trent	1.1	1.2	1.2	1.6	1.64	1.50	1.50	2.13	1.99
Suffolk	0.5	0.5	0.6	0.6	0.89	1.08	1.32	1.29	1.37
Sunderland	1.2	1.2	1.0	0.9	0.99	0.90	1.19	1.37	0.98
Surrey	0.4	0.5	0.7	1.0	0.97	0.98	1.09	1.19	1.19
Sutton	0.3	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.89	0.66	0.69	0.67	0.78
Swindon	0.7	0.7	0.8	0.7	0.76	0.67	1.07	0.89	0.88
Tameside	1.2	1.3	1.1	1.2	1.04	0.43	0.46	0.89	1.09
Telford and Wrekin	1.0	0.8	1.0	0.9	0.63	0.51	0.61	0.95	1.06
Thurrock	1.5	1.3	1.3	1.1	0.93	1.62	1.25	1.24	1.62
Torbay	0.7	0.8	1.0	1.2	1.26	1.49	1.47	1.58	1.85
Tower Hamlets	2.8	2.2	2.5	2.6	2.41	2.03	1.97	2.42	2.05
Trafford	0.7	1.1	0.7	0.8	0.73	0.60	0.68	0.70	0.61
Wakefield	0.7	1.0	0.7	0.9	0.84	1.00	0.94	1.04	0.82
Walsall	1.0	0.9	0.8	0.7	0.82	0.86	1.09	1.14	1.27
Waltham Forest	2.3	1.8	1.4	2.0	1.72	1.37	1.57	1.74	1.37
Wandsworth	1.7	1.2	0.8	0.7	1.34	1.09	0.82	1.11	1.22
Warrington	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.6	0.64	0.65	0.81	0.93	1.10
Warwickshire	0.7	0.6	0.7	0.7	0.66	0.76	0.75	0.95	0.94
West Berkshire	0.4	0.3	0.4	0.6	0.58	0.61	0.86	0.89	0.86
West Sussex	0.6	0.7	0.7	0.8	0.88	0.75	0.73	0.92	0.76
Westminster, City of	3.2	3.9	3.1	2.4	1.76	1.59	1.95	1.77	1.98
Wigan	1.3	1.2	1.0	0.8	0.67	0.60	0.60	0.86	1.18
Wiltshire	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.7	0.65	0.60	0.73	0.88	1.01
Windsor & Maidenhead	0.4	0.5	0.6	0.6	0.65	0.72	0.75	1.00	0.84
Wirral	0.8	0.7	0.6	0.5	0.48	0.54	0.61	0.54	0.72
Wokingham	0.4	0.3	0.4	0.6	0.96	0.62	0.80	1.16	0.88
Wolverhampton	1.5	1.4	1.3	1,2	1.06	1.20	1.13	1.18	1.05
Worcestershire	0.7	0.8	0.8	0.8	0.61	0.76	0.60	0.79	0.93
York, City of	0.6	0.8	1.1	1.1	1.02	1.14	105	1.04	1.13
¹ Includes middle schools as deemed. ² Figures are only available to 1 decimal place prior to 2001-02. ³ Figures for 2005-06 are provisional.

Date

23 October 2006

Reference

93549; 450 c1578-88W;450 c1584-94W

House

House of Commons

Unauthorised Absence

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what his most recent estimate is of the level of persistent unauthorised absence in (a) primary and (b) secondary schools in (i) rural and (ii) non-rural areas in each year since 1997; and if he will make a statement.

Asked by

Chris Huhne (Liberal Democrat)

Answering body

Department for Education and Skills

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

23 October 2006

Reference

450 c1589W;450 c1595W; 94505

House

House of Commons

Truancy

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills pursuant to the answer of 24 July 2006, Official Report, column 852W, on truancy, how many pupils there were in maintained mainstream secondary schools in each year since 1997-98 in (a) rural and (b) non-rural areas; what definition of rurality...

Asked by

Chris Huhne (Liberal Democrat)

Answering body

Department for Education and Skills

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

11 September 2006

For answer on

18 September 2006

Answered on

12 October 2006

[holding answer 18 September 2006]: The pupil numbers requested are given in the following table.

Number of pupils in maintained mainstream secondary schools¹ in England
	Rural areas	Urban areas	Total
1997/98	389,283	2,620,531	3,009,814
1998/99	402,315	2,704,363	3,106,678
1999/2000	414,166	2,755,831	3,169,997
2000/01	418,311	2,789,619	3,207,930
2001/02	428,546	2,829,683	3,258.229
2002/03	435,721	2,863,511	3,299,232
2003/04	440,185	2,882,159	3,322,344
2004/05	445,273	2,880,806	3,326,079
2005/06²	446,159	2,888,092	3,334,251
¹ Includes middle schools as deemed. Excludes city technology colleges.
² Provisional.

The urban and rural classifications used in this table are based on those drawn up in 2004 by the Countryside Agency, DEFRA, ODPM, ONS and the Welsh Assembly Government. The classification is based on population densities across the whole spectrum of ‘settlements’, or built-up areas, in England and Wales. Urban areas are defined as settlements with a population of 10,000 or more. Census Output Areas (OAs) are described as urban or rural depending on whether the majority of the population falls inside a settlement of population 10,000 or more.Secondly, the classification enables areas to be defined as predominantly urban or predominantly town and fringe, predominantly village or predominantly dispersed (which includes hamlets and isolated dwellings). The town and fringe, village, hamlet and isolated dwelling classifications are taken as being rural.

Date

12 October 2006

Reference

91237; 450 c817-8W;450 c823-4W

House

House of Commons

Truancy

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what his most recent estimate is of the levels of truancy in secondary schools in (a) rural and (b) non-rural areas in each year since 1997; and if he will make a statement.

Asked by

Chris Huhne (Liberal Democrat)

Answering body

Department for Education and Skills

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

12 July 2006

For answer on

14 July 2006

Answered on

24 July 2006

The Department does not hold data on pupils recorded as truant. However, the figures for the proportion of half days missed due to unauthorised absence (of which truancy forms a part) in maintained mainstream secondary schools in (a) rural and (b) non-rural areas in each year since 1997 are given in the table as follows:

Percentage of half days missed in maintained mainstream secondary schools¹ due to unauthorised absence²
	Rural areas	Non-rural areas
1997/98	0.6	1.2
1998/99	0.6	1.1
1999/2000	0.6	1.1
2000/01	0.7	1.0
2001/02	0.64	1.16
2002/03	0.64	1.14
2003/04	0.70	1.20
2004/05	0.76	1.31
¹ Includes middle schools as deemed.
² Figures are only available to 1 decimal place prior to 2001/02.

Date

24 July 2006

Reference

85944; 449 c852W;449 c851-2W

House

House of Commons

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