| Heading: |
Home Education |
| Question ID: |
1728730 |
| UIN: |
HL947 |
| House: |
Lords |
| Date tabled: |
2024-09-10 |
| Asking Member ID: |
4238 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Lord Storey
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| Asking Member handle: |
LordStorey
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@LordStorey
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the increasing number of pupils being educated at home. |
| Is named day: |
false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2024-09-26 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
269 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Baroness Smith of Malvern
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| Answering Member handle: |
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
Baroness Smith of Malvern
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| Answer text: |
The department has collected local authority data on electively home-educated children from local authorities in England since autumn 2022. The most recent published figures show an estimated 92,000 children in home education on the October 2023 census, w... |
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| Answering body ID: |
60 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Education |
| Tweeted: |
true |