§ Ms BuckTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what proportion of secondary school pupils in each local education authority area were permanently excluded from school in 1997–98; and what proportion of all pupils were educated in pupil referral units or equivalent in that year. [62100]
§ Ms Estelle MorrisThe latest available information on pupils permanently excluded from secondary schools in each Local Education Authority area in England, for the 1996–97 school year, was published in Press Notice 451/98, which is available in the Library.
86WInformation on pupils in Pupil Referral Units in each Local Education Authority area in England in January 1998 is shown in the following table.
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January 1998 Number (headcount) Total Percentage of pupils in pupil referral units England 7,740 8,260,582 0.1 North East 426 452,060 0.1 Hartlepool 29 17,154 0.2 Middlesborough 0 27,285 0.0 Redcar and Cleveland 55 26,822 0.2 Stockton-on-Tees 51 35,427 0.1 Darlington 41 17,243 0.2 Durham 10 83,946 0.0 Northumberland 0 53,329 0.0 Gateshead 20 32,681 0.1 Newcastle-upon-Tyne 75 46,459 0.2 North Tyneside 79 33,242 0.2 South Tyneside 47 26,731 0.2 Sunderland 19 51,741 0.0 North West and Merseyside 820 1,211,048 0.1 North West 378 952,097 0.0 Cheshire 99 170,267 0.1 Cumbria 160 82,069 0.2 Bolton 5 50,208 0.0 Bury 59 32,416 0.2 Manchester 0 77,066 0.0 Oldham 0 43,930 0.0 Rochdale 0 37,526 0.0 Salford 0 39,802 0.0 Stockport 9 49,308 0.0 Tameside 26 39,022 0.1 Trafford 0 38,760 0.0 Wigan 0 51,468 0.0 Lancashire 20 240,255 0.0 Merseyside 442 258,951 0.2 Knowsley 24 30,149 0.1 Liverpool 212 85,627 0.2 St. Helens 0 31,238 0.0 Sefton 103 52,233 0.2 Wirral 103 59,704 0.2 Yorkshire and Humber 961 866,079 0.1 East Riding of Yorkshire 0 50,723 0.0 City of Kingston-upon-Hull 12 45,713 0.0 North East Lincolnshire 1 29,311 0.0 North Lincolnshire 3 25,943 0.0 York 72 27,354 0.3 North Yorkshire 14 93,097 0.0 Barnsley 0 35,686 0.0 Doncaster 96 53,565 0.2 Rotherham 63 46,590 0.1 Sheffield 136 78,519 0.2 Bradford 39 94,911 0.0 Calderdale 0 36,354 0.0 Kirklees 19 67,326 0.0 Leeds 245 122,667 0.2 Wakefield 261 58,320 0.4 East Midlands 376 699,425 0.1 Derby 47 40,136 0.1 Derbyshire 27 118,638 0.0 Leicester City 0 52,097 0.0 88W
January 1998 Number (headcount) Total Percentage of pupils in pupil referral units Rutland 0 6,627 0.0 Leicestershire 0 97,370 0.0 Lincolnshire 9 101,163 0.0 Northamptonshire 239 110,780 0.2 Nottinghamshire 54 172,614 0.0 West Midlands 970 934,120 0.1 Hereford and Worcester 202 116,162 0.2 Shropshire 2 72,478 0.0 Stoke 5 40,544 0.0 Staffordshire 58 138,521 0.0 Warwickshire 44 82,779 0.1 Birmingham 391 188,765 0.2 Coventry 24 54,195 0.0 Dudley 34 51,337 0.1 Sandwell 86 52,929 0.2 Solihull 52 40,389 0.1 Walsall 0 50,835 0.0 Wolverhampton 72 45,186 0.2 Eastern 453 882,641 0.1 Luton 11 32,014 0.0 Bedfordshire 14 69,113 0.0 Cambridgeshire 52 112,771 0.0 Essex 23 253,309 0.0 Hertfordshire 184 190,911 0.1 Norfolk 45 117,116 0.0 Suffolk 124 107,407 0.1 London 2,005 1,153,699 0.2 Inner London 1,006 413,708 0.2 City of London 0 1,847 0.0 Camden 84 29,673 0.3 Hackney 88 30,435 0.3 Hammersmith and Fulham 118 20,657 0.6 Haringey 42 34,878 0.1 Islington 50 25,048 0.2 Kensington and Chelsea 71 21,502 0.3 Lambeth 42 29,718 0.1 Lewisham 127 37,309 0.3 Newham 34 46,417 0.1 Southwark 105 39,778 0.3 Tower Hamlets 153 37,158 0.4 Wandsworth 92 35,699 0.3 Westminster 0 23,589 0.0 Outer London 999 739,991 0.1 Barking and Dagenham 0 28,534 0.0 Barnet 48 53,623 0.1 Bexley 68 39,514 0.2 Brent 41 38,719 0.1 Bromley 110 49,558 0.2 Croydon 185 56,961 0.3 Ealing 136 48,583 0.3 Enfield 115 47,778 0.2 Greenwich 75 38,967 0.2 Harrow 52 33,214 0.2 Havering 8 36,972 0.0 Hillingdon 45 42,374 0.1 Hounslow 23 36,174 0.1 Kingston-upon-Thames 28 23,433 0.1 Merton 0 27,937 0.0 Redbridge 36 43,707 0.1 Richmond-upon-Thames 0 27,474 0.0 Sutton 29 29,879 0.1 Waltham Forest 0 36,590 0.0
January 1998 Number (headcount) Total Percentage of pupils in pupil referral units South East 1,329 1,290,151 0.1 Berkshire 42 138,156 0.0 Milton Keynes 19 35,843 0.1 Buckinghamshire 39 81,988 0.0 Brighton and Hove 25 34,427 0.1 East Sussex 64 72,916 0.1 Portsmouth 48 29,113 0.2 Southampton 118 33,270 0.4 Hampshire 138 189,792 0.1 Isle of Wight 8 19,996 0.0 Kent 365 269,546 0.1 Oxfordshire 119 98,116 0.1 Surrey 260 172,052 0.2 West Sussex 84 114,936 0.1 South West 400 771,359 0.1 Bath and North East Somerset 0 29,286 0.0 City of Bristol 1 60,791 0.0 North Somerset 29 28,418 0.1 South Gloucestershire 0 40,449 0.0 Cornwall 0 75,688 0.0 Isles of Scilly 0 268 0.0 Devon 86 165,660 0.1 Bournemoth 0 22,735 0.0 Poole 20 21,097 0.1 Dorset 29 58,815 0.0 Gloucestershire 57 91,831 0.1 Somerset 54 77,987 0.1 Swindon 23 29,263 0.1 Wiltshire 101 69,071 0.1 1 Excludes pupils who are also registered at a mainstream or special school