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Out-of-school Education: Prosecutions

Question for Department for Education

UIN HL3171, tabled on 3 December 2024

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Smith of Malvern on 29 November (HL2588), how many prosecutions have been initiated in each of the past five years for operating an unregistered school.

Answered on

19 December 2024

In total, five prosecutions have been initiated in the past five years against individuals suspected of conducting an unregistered school. The table below shows the number of prosecutions that have been initiated in each of those five years.

Year

Total number prosecutions

2020

1

2021

2

2022

1

2023

0

2024

1