John Mann – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Education

The below Parliamentary question was asked by John Mann on 2016-03-07.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many pupils are home schooled; and how many were so schooled in (a) 2005 and (b) 2010.

Edward Timpson

Data for the numbers of children educated at home in England are not collected by the Department for Education. Some local authorities maintain voluntary registers of children educated at home but as they have no statutory basis, they cannot be regarded as an authoritative source of data.