HC Deb 29 March 1994 vol 240 cc738-40W
Mr. Madden

To ask the Secretary of State for Education what representations he has received about the powers of maintained schools to exclude pupils.

Mr. Forth

The Department has received a wide range of responses to the draft circular on exclusions, which was issued for consultation in January as part of the "Pupils with Problems" package. Those responses are currently being analysed. From time to time the Department also receives representations from parents or other interested parties about individual exclusion cases.