Fines for term-time holidays have trebled since the ban was introduced two years ago.
At least 50,414 fines were issued to parents who took their children out of school for an “unauthorised absence” in the academic year 2014-2015, nearly three times as many as in the first year of the ban, when around 18,000 were issued,and up 25 per cent on last year, when just over 40,000 fines were issued.