§ Mr. CoxTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if he will list for each of the London education authorities the number of pupils who were excluded from school on 11 June. [90172]
§ Ms Estelle MorrisInformation on exclusions is collected only on an annual basis. The latest available information in the form requested is for the academic year 1997–98 and is shown in the following table.
Number of permanent exclusions by type of school and Local Education Authority area England 1997–98 Number of permanent exclusions Primary1 Secondary1 Special2 Total City of London 0 3— 3— 0 Camden 11 34 5 50 Hackney 22 21 3 46 Hammersmith and Fulham 12 39 1 52 Haringey 5 38 3 46 Islington 8 38 1 47 Kensington and Chelsea 5 33 0 38 Lambeth 15 40 7 62 Lewisham 22 50 5 77 Newham 12 42 0 54 Southwark 15 76 5 96 Tower Hamlets 5 39 5 49 Wandsworth 10 59 7 76 Westminster 3 60 0 63 Barking and Dagenham 9 38 0 47 Barnet 8 65 4 77 Bexley 11 59 2 72 Brent 7 90 0 97 Bromley 10 83 0 93 Croydon 17 85 6 108 Ealing 11 71 0 82 Enfield 10 74 3 87 Greenwich 8 48 5 61 Harrow 5 50 5 60 Havering 4 66 0 70 Hillingdon 3 52 3 58 Hounslow 8 61 2 71 Kigston-upon-Thames 0 27 2 29 Merton 4 32 0 36 Redbridge 5 29 1 35 Richmond-upon-Thames 1 53 0 54 Sutton 6 37 2 45 Waltham Forest 10 76 3 89 1 Includes middle schools as deemed 2 Includes maintained and non maintained special schools 3 not applicable (no schools of this type)