HC Deb 13 July 1993 vol 228 c439W
19. Mrs. Roche

To ask the Secretary of State for Education what assessment his Department has made of the accuracy of truancy figures he plans to publish in his proposed truancy tables.

Mr. Forth

It is for individual schools in the first instance to satisfy themselves as to the accuracy of their returns. The Department has also specified a series of wide-ranging computerised tests which the contractor will apply to each return.