questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Department for Education's press release entitled Birthday bunk-offs fuelling avoidable school absence, published on 10 June 2026, what estimate she has made of the cost to the education system associated with persistent absenteeism.
answerText: Each day of lost learning can do serious harm. Days missed add up quickly, even if it takes just 1 minute to catch up on each day of school that pupils miss, this still equates to resource equivalent of 1,000 full time teachers working purely on missed le...
heading: Pupils: Absenteeism