HC Deb 18 June 1997 vol 296 cc193-5W
Mr. Hancock

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment (1) how many(a) primary and (b) secondary-aged children have been permanently excluded from school in each local education authority area in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement; [4169]

(2) how many children in special schools have been permanently excluded from school in each local education authority area in each of the last five years. [4170]

Ms Estelle Morris

The numbers of primary, secondary and special school pupils permanently excluded from school in the 1994–95 school year in each local education authority area are set out in the following table. Details of exclusions in 1995–96 are currently being collated and will be available later in the year. Information on exclusions in previous years is not available centrally for each local education authority area.

Permanent exclusions from maintained primary, secondary and special schools and non-maintained special schools in the 1994–95 school year
Number of permanent exclusions
LEA area Primary Secondary Special
City of London 0 1 1
Camden 7 41 6
Greenwich 9 45 3
Hackney 8 9 6
Hammersmith and Fulham 9 63 1
Islington 7 58 2
Kensington and Chelsea 4 27 0
Lambeth 12 39 4
Lewisham 15 46 7
Southwark 12 82 2
Tower Hamlets 8 46 5
Wandsworth 9 69 12
Westminster 6 53 0
Barking and Dagenham 9 47 1
Barnet 15 92 1

Table 1: Average and maximum class size and number of pupils in classes of 31 or more pupils for classes taught by one teacher in maintained primary schools in the Bolton Parliamentary Constituencies in January 1996
Average class Size Maximum class size Pupils in classes of 31 or more
Bolton West 27.9 41 3,137
Bolton North-east 28.8 60 4,033
Bolton South-east 28.7 60 4,549

Permanent exclusions from maintained primary, secondary and special schools and non-maintained special schools in the 1994–95 school year
Number of permanent exclusions
LEA area Primary Secondary Special
Bexley 6 47 2
Brent 9 93 2
Bromley 9 86 6
Croydon 11 118 5
Ealing 3 70 0
Enfield 9 75 1
Haringey 2 17 0
Harrow 6 47 2
Havering 2 58 0
Hillingdon 11 47 7
Hounslow 7 80 0
Kingston-upon-Thames 2 24 0
Merton 1 31 3
Newham 11 43 0
Redbridge 2 47 3
Richmond upon Thames 3 31 0
Sutton 4 31 2
Waltham Forest 8 81 2
Birmingham 65 199 2
Coventry 6 95 3
Dudley 9 42 4
Sandwell 9 109 2
Solihull 11 24 6
Walsall 7 49 2
Wolverhampton 10 57 3
Knowsley 2 26 1
Liverpool 14 114 14
St. Helens 2 27 1
Sefton 6 41 0
Wirral 10 39 3
Bolton 7 86 2
Bury 7 56 0
Manchester 26 116 10
Oldham 5 42 2
Rochdale 3 26 2
Salford 13 102 0
Stockport 1 30 9
Tamside 9 52 0

Permanent exclusions from maintained primary, secondary and special schools and non-maintained special schools in the 1994–95 school year
Number of permanent exclusions
LEA area Primary Secondary Special
Trafford 6 37 4
Wigan 6 47 2
Barnsley 0 16 0
Doncaster 6 92 7
Rotherham 4 45 1
Sheffield 16 73 5
Bradford 2 125 1
Calderdale 4 20 0
Kirklees 14 38 2
Leeds 15 159 8
Wakefield 15 85 4
Gateshead 2 31 1
Newcastle upon Tyne 18 74 3
North Tyneside 6 53 1
South Tyneside 1 65 1
Sunderland 8 40 1
Isles of Scilly 0 0 1
Avon 49 171 26
Bedfordshire 12 117 8
Berkshire 23 167 14
Buckinghamshire 17 83 4
Cambridge 7 107 1
Cheshire 16 152 10
Cleveland 16 66 8
Cornwall 11 70 0
Cumbria 9 70 0
Derbyshire 23 136 8
Devon 22 101 16
Dorset 17 93 6
Durham 9 100 5
East Sussex 24 114 13
Essex 29 174 7
Gloucestershire 18 96 5
Hampshire 44 308 24
Hereford and Worcester 10 116 1
Hertfordshire 24 155 9
Humberside 13 91 4
Isle of Wight 1 12 0
Kent 52 289 21
Lancashire 41 272 13
Leicestershire 21 158 5
Lincolnshire 9 104 4
Norfolk 14 87 3
North Yorkshire 10 71 7
Northamptonshire 15 125 9
Northumberland 6 53 7
Nottinghamshire 25 209 4
Oxfordshire 10 36 3
Shropshire 7 99 7
Somerset 13 46 3
Staffordshire 25 226 5
Suffolk 13 103 1
Surrey 25 176 17
Warwichshire 11 60 6
West Sussex 22 94 4
Wiltshire 13 88 12
England 1,307 8,870 492
1No schools of this type in LEA area.