Exclusions (Hansard, 3 November 1999)

§ Ms Estelle Morris

[holding answer 1 November 1999]: The category of indefinite exclusion was abolished with effect from 1 September 1994. The latest available information on pupils permanently excluded from schools in England is shown in the following table.

Number of permanent exclusions by age and local education authority area England 1997–98
	Age¹
	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11
England	0	0	81	131	176	254	368	616	703
North East	0	0	3	3	3	10	20	37	42
Hartlepool	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	1
Middlesbrough	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	1	1
Redcar and Cleveland	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	2
Stockton-on-Tees	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	1	0
Darlington	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	1
Durham	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	3	10
Northumberland	0	0	1	0	1	2	1	8	7
Gateshead	0	0	1	0	1	1	1	5	1
Newcastle upon Tyne	0	0	0	2	1	3	4	4	11
North Tyneside	0	0	1	0	0	3	1	3	4
South Tyneside	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	2	2
Sunderland	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	3	2
North West and Merseyside	0	0	13	20	25	42	58	117	90
North West	0	0	9	15	20	31	45	90	62
Halton	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0
Warrington	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	1
Cheshire	0	0	2	4	4	4	2	7	3
Cumbria	0	0	1	0	1	2	2	2	4
Bolton	0	0	0	1	1	1	3	5	2
Bury	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	1	2
Manchester	0	0	0	2	6	5	12	20	18
Oldham	0	0	0	3	1	2	0	3	3
Rochdale	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	4
Salford	0	0	0	1	0	1	2	6	2
Tameside	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	7	3
Trafford	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	0
Wigan	0	0	1	1	2	3	4	5	7
Blackburn with Darwen	0	0	2	0	0	1	0	3	0
Blackpool	0	0	0	1	0	1	1	1	1
Lancashire	0	0	2	0	4	8	9	20	12
Merseyside	0	0	4	5	5	11	13	27	28
Knowsley	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0
Liverpool	0	0	1	3	1	2	8	13	17
St Helens	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	1	2
Sefton	0	0	3	0	2	6	2	5	5
Wirral	0	0	0	2	1	2	3	6	4
Yorkshire and Humberside	0	0	4	8	17	31	29	67	71
East Riding of Yorkshire	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1
City of Kingston-upon-Hull	0	0	0	0	3	33	1	1	7
North East Lincolnshire	0	0	1	0	0	0	3	5	4
North Lincolnshire	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	4	4
York	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	5	0
North Yorkshire	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	4	2
Barnsley	0	0	2	0	0	1	4	1	1
Doncaster	0	0	0	0	2	2	1	4	15
Rotherham	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	3
Sheffield	0	0	0	4	4	3	9	12	10
Bradford	0	0	0	1	4	7	0	7	12
Calderdale	0	0	0	0	1	1	2	2	1
Kirklees	0	0	0	1	2	1	1	5	3
Leeds	0	0	1	2	1	9	4	14	9
Wakefield	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	2	0
East Midlands	0	0	5	11	14	11	27	44	71
Derby	0	0	0	1	0	4	5	6	10
Derbyshire	0	0	0	2	4	1	4	6	6
Leicester City	0	0	0	4	1	2	7	4	10

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Information on fixed period (temporary) exclusions was not collected for the school year 1998–99.

For information on schools in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, I refer my hon. Friend to the Scottish Parliament, the National Assembly for Wales and my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland respectively.

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Number of permanent exclusions by age and local education authority area England 1997–98
	Age ¹
	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11
Rutland	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Leicestershire	0	0	1	1	0	0	3	2	9
Lincolnshire	0	0	1	1	5	1	0	9	9
Northamptonshire	0	0	2	0	2	2	4	5	13
City of Nottingham	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	6	6
Nottinghamshire	0	0	1	2	2	1	3	6	8
West Midlands	0	0	11	13	20	28	49	61	76
Herefordshire	0	0	0	0	2	0	2	0	0
Worcestershire	0	0	1	2	1	0	3	6	6
Telford and Wrekin	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	1	2
Shropshire	0	0	0	1	0	0	4	1	2
Stoke	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	3	4
Staffordshire	0	0	1	3	1	2	6	2	10
Warwickshire	0	0	0	0	3	1	5	1	5
Birmingham	0	0	6	7	7	15	19	14	22
Coventry	0	0	0	0	2	3	2	13	8
Dudley	0	0	1	0	1	2	4	3	2
Sandwell	0	0	2	0	1	0	1	3	3
Solihull	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	1	1
Walsall	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	2	5
Wolverhampton	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	11	6
Eastern	0	1	0	1	5	2	2	2	6
Luton	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	2	2
Bedfordshire	0	0	0	1	1	0	3	3	4
City of Peterborough	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	4
Cambridgeshire	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	2	3
Southend	0	0	1	0	1	1	1	2	1
Thurrock	0	0	1	0	1	1	1	3	4
Essex	0	0	1	2	3	7	11	6	7
Hertfordshire	0	0	6	8	6	8	13	10	15
Norfolk	0	0	0	3	9	4	7	9	16
Suffolk	0	0	0	0	1	4	6	7	11
London	0	0	13	30	31	49	55	107	137
Inner London	0	0	8	17	18	28	24	52	54
City of London	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Camden	0	0	1	0	2	1	2	5	5
Hackney	0	0	0	3	1	5	7	6	0
Hammersmith and Fulham	0	0	0	5	1	2	3	2	4
Haringey	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	3	5
Islington	0	0	0	2	3	0	2	2	5
Kensington and Chelsea	0	0	1	0	1	2	0	1	2
Lambeth	0	0	1	1	0	3	3	7	2
Lewisham	0	0	1	0	4	7	3	7	6
Newham	0	0	1	1	0	2	1	7	3
Southwark	0	0	2	1	4	1	1	6	12
Tower Hamlets	0	0	0	0	1	2	0	2	1
Wandsworth	0	0	1	2	1	2	1	3	5
Westminster	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	1	4
Outer London	0	0	5	13	13	21	31	55	83
Barking and Dagenham	0	0	0	2	1	1	1	4	2
Barnet	0	0	0	1	0	2	2	3	2
Bexley	0	0	1	0	1	2	2	7	3
Brent	0	0	0	0	1	1	3	4	4
Bromley	0	0	2	3	0	1	1	3	6
Croydon	0	0	1	1	1	2	4	8	12
Ealing	0	0	1	0	0	3	3	4	15
Enfield	0	0	0	1	2	1	3	3	6
Greenwich	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	6	5
Harrow	0	0	0	1	1	1	1	2	1
Havering	0	0	0	0	1	2	0	1	3
Hillingdon	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	2
Hounslow	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	5	5
Kingston-upon-Thames	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
Merton	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	4
Redbridge	0	0	0	1	1	0	1	1	1
Richmond-upon-Thames	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1
Suton	0	0	0	1	1	1	2	1	2
Waltham Forest	0	0	0	2	2	2	3	1	7

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Number of permanent exclusions by age and local education authority area England 1997–98
	Age ¹
	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11
South East	0	0	15	24	24	35	53	85	89
Bracknell Forest	0	0	0	0	0	1	4	1	1
Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	1	2
West Berkshire	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	2	1
Reading	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	3	1
Slough	0	0	0	0	1	1	4	2	1
Wokingham	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	1	3
Milton Keynes	0	0	0	0	2	0	1	0	1
Buckinghamshire	0	0	2	3	0	3	2	3	0
Brighton and Hove	0	0	0	1	1	3	1	5	1
East Sussex	0	0	0	2	1	3	1	5	3
Portsmouth	0	0	0	1	0	2	2	2	1
Southampton	0	0	0	2	4	1	1	3	5
Hampshire	0	0	2	5	2	9	7	14	16
Isle of Wight	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Medway	0	0	1	2	0	2	3	8	5
Kent	0	0	5	4	7	5	9	13	27
Oxfordshire	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	2	4
Surrey	0	0	3	2	0	2	7	8	12
West Sussex	0	0	1	1	4	2	2	12	5
South West	0	0	7	7	20	22	35	50	70
Bath and NE Somerset	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	2	6
City of Bristol	0	0	2	0	3	5	8	3	17
North Somerset	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	3
South Gloucestershire	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	5
Cornwall	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	4	4
Isles of Scilly	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Torbay	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	1	2
City of Plymouth	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	6	6
Devon	0	0	1	4	5	6	6	6	8
Bournemouth	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	2
Poole	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
Dorset	0	0	0	0	3	1	1	2	3
Gloucestershire	0	0	1	1	3	3	5	3	6
Somerset	0	0	2	0	1	2	1	6	3
Swindon	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	2	1
Wiltshire	0	0	1	0	3	3	5	6	4

Number of permanent exclusions by age and local education authority area. England 1997–98
	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	Total
England	1,564	2,385	3,351	2,447	192	24	5	1	12,298
North East	91	102	200	156	9	1	0	0	677
Hartlepool	5	6	8	11	0	0	0	0	34
Middlesbrough	4	2	6	6	0	0	0	0	23
Redcar and Cleveland	9	7	8	7	0	0	0	0	35
Stockton-on-Tees	2	5	22	10	0	0	0	0	43
Darlington	4	4	10	7	0	0	0	0	39
Durham	16	21	27	26	1	0	0	0	107
Northumberland	15	10	25	19	4	0	0	0	93
Gateshead	1	1	10	8	2	0	0	0	32
Newcastle upon Tyne	15	14	29	17	1	1	0	0	102
North Tyneside	8	5	22	12	0	0	0	0	59
South Tyneside	7	14	24	22	0	0	0	0	74
Sunderland	5	13	9	11	1	0	0	0	46
North West and Merseyside	218	377	516	403	8	2	0	0	1,889
North West	171	283	394	329	7	1	0	0	1,457
Halton	2	5	8	6	0	0	0	0	23
Warrington	2	8	10	8	0	0	0	0	32
Cheshire	12	16	30	26	2	0	0	0	112
Cumbria	4	24	36	24	0	0	0	0	100
Bolton	8	13	32	20	0	0	0	0	86
Bury	10	13	14	10	0	0	0	0	52
Manchester	22	28	48	36	1	0	0	0	198
Oldham	4	19	15	20	0	1	0	0	71
Rochdale	3	6	8	5	0	0	0	0	29
Salford	14	24	21	22	0	0	0	0	93
Tameside	11	16	16	17	0	0	0	0	73

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Number of permanent exclusions by age and local education authority area. England 1997–98
	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	Total
Trafford	5	7	7	10	1	0	0	0	33
Wigan	9	17	21	16	0	0	0	0	86
Blackburn with Darwen	13	14	19	9	1	0	0	0	62
Blackpool	10	6	7	12	0	0	0	0	40
Lancashire	38	59	82	65	2	0	0	0	301
Merseyside	47	94	122	74	1	1	0	0	432
Knowsley	1	9	11	10	1	0	0	0	34
Liverpool	27	41	65	28	0	0	0	0	206
St Helens	4	7	10	11	0	1	0	0	38
Sefton	9	18	21	14	0	0	0	0	85
Wirral	6	19	15	11	0	0	0	0	69
Yorkshire and Humberside	180	251	338	246	15	4	0	1	1,262
East Riding of Yorkshire	3	9	6	3	1	0	0	0	24
City of Kingston-upon-Hull	15	14	17	5	0	0	0	0	66
North East Lincolnshire	7	6	8	18	0	0	0	0	52
North Lincolnshire	4	6	8	18	0	0	0	0	32
York	6	10	12	3	0	0	0	0	38
North Yorkshire	9	15	20	27	3	0	0	0	82
Barnsley	8	11	13	6	0	0	0	0	47
Doncaster	40	49	51	29	1	2	0	1	197
Rotherham	7	6	13	5	0	0	0	0	35
Sheffield	18	22	31	15	0	0	0	0	128
Bradford	12	20	46	34	2	0	0	0	145
Calderdale	5	9	10	6	1	0	0	0	38
Kirklees	5	8	28	11	1	0	0	0	66
Leeds	28	48	55	49	3	2	0	0	225
Wakefield	13	17	21	29	3	0	0	0	87
East Midlands	131	190	275	213	15	0	1	0	1,008
Derby	12	16	36	21	0	0	1	0	112
Derbyshire	20	19	46	23	0	0	0	0	131
Leicester City	20	24	20	17	0	0	0	0	109
Rutland	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1
Leicestershire	7	20	24	29	1	0	0	0	97
Lincolnshire	15	24	26	34	3	0	0	0	128
Northamptonshire	16	24	40	25	8	0	0	0	141
City of Nottingham	19	22	31	31	0	0	0	0	116
Nottinghamshire	22	41	51	33	3	0	0	0	173
West Midlands	204	288	466	305	23	0	0	0	1,544
Herefordshire	7	7	8	5	2	0	0	0	33
Worcestershire	7	12	43	43	2	0	0	0	126
Telford and Wrekin	16	14	18	15	1	0	0	0	69
Shropshire	3	6	17	16	0	0	0	0	50
Stoke	12	22	40	18	0	0	0	0	101
Staffordshire	15	27	60	26	3	0	0	0	156
Warwickshire	13	21	31	21	3	0	0	0	104
Birmingham	62	87	107	41	3	0	0	0	390
Coventry	22	25	25	22	0	0	0	0	122
Dudley	4	8	21	15	3	0	0	0	64
Sandwell	16	33	32	34	0	0	0	0	125
Solihull	11	8	17	14	0	0	0	0	54
Walsall	6	10	33	25	3	0	0	0	87
Wolverhampton	10	8	14	10	3	0	0	0	63
Eastern	115	201	252	215	16	0	1	0	1,020
Luton	3	7	5	7	0	0	0	0	28
Bedfordshire	12	12	29	14	1	0	1	0	81
City of Peterborough	2	8	16	11	1	0	0	0	46
Cambridgeshire	5	9	15	11	0	0	0	0	46
Southend	5	7	7	8	3	0	0	0	37
Thurrock	6	13	11	7	0	0	0	0	48
Essex	29	48	46	47	0	0	0	0	207
Hertfordshire	20	53	59	50	8	0	0	0	256
Norfolk	16	22	30	36	0	0	0	0	142
Suffolk	17	22	34	24	3	0	0	0	129
London	278	396	523	356	41	10	1	0	2,027
Inner London	112	147	174	106	13	3	0	0	756
City of London	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Camden	3	8	17	4	2	0	0	0	50
Hackney	6	7	9	2	0	0	0	0	46

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Number of permanent exclusions by age and local education authority area. England 1997–98
	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	Total
Hammersmith and Fulham	9	11	6	9	0	0	0	0	52
Haringey	5	13	13	5	0	0	0	0	46
Islington	10	8	11	4	0	0	0	0	47
Kensington and Chelsea	7	7	9	8	0	0	0	0	38
Lambeth	10	13	11	11	0	0	0	0	62
Lewisham	12	14	17	4	2	0	0	0	77
Newham	5	12	15	6	0	1	0	0	54
Southwark	13	24	20	12	0	0	0	0	96
Tower Hamlets	10	10	12	11	0	0	0	0	49
Wandsworth	3	13	21	14	0	0	0	0	76
Westminster	9	7	13	16	9	2	0	0	63
Outer London	166	249	349	250	28	7	1	0	1,271
Barking and Dagenham	4	11	13	7	1	0	0	0	47
Barnet	11	12	13	20	10	1	0	0	77
Bexley	9	16	21	8	2	0	0	0	72
Brent	13	24	23	20	5	1	0	0	97
Bromley	12	18	30	16	0	1	0	0	93
Croydon	14	13	23	29	0	0	0	0	108
Ealing	11	13	13	17	0	2	0	0	82
Enfield	9	12	24	21	5	0	0	0	87
Greenwich	11	10	14	12	1	0	0	0	61
Harrow	8	13	24	8	0	0	0	0	60
Havering	12	15	18	18	0	0	0	0	70
Hillingdon	5	18	19	11	0	0	0	0	58
Hounslow	10	13	22	9	2	2	0	0	71
Kingston-upon-Thames	3	7	11	4	1	0	1	0	29
Merton	5	8	14	2	0	0	0	0	36
Redbridge	7	9	11	3	0	0	0	0	35
Richmond-upon-Thames	5	10	21	16	0	0	0	0	54
Suton	4	11	12	10	0	0	0	0	45
Waltham Forest	13	16	23	19	1	0	0	0	89
South East	227	355	513	355	39	6	2	0	1,822
Bracknell Forest	4	10	11	6	0	0	0	0	38
Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead	2	7	10	12	2	0	0	0	38
West Berkshire	4	10	6	8	1	0	0	0	35
Reading	10	17	13	8	1	0	0	0	54
Slough	0	9	11	11	0	0	0	0	40
Wokingham	6	5	12	3	0	0	0	0	32
Milton Keynes	5	6	17	10	2	0	0	0	44
Buckinghamshire	9	14	18	21	1	1	0	0	77
Brighton and Hove	6	8	17	8	0	1	0	0	52
East Sussex	18	13	39	16	1	0	0	0	102
Portsmouth	10	20	8	10	0	0	0	0	59
Southampton	10	11	18	12	0	0	0	0	67
Hampshire	33	50	81	49	2	0	0	0	270
Isle of Wight	3	0	8	3	0	0	0	0	14
Medway	16	11	27	14	1	0	0	0	90
Kent	44	75	97	60	10	2	2	0	360
Oxfordshire	10	13	23	19	3	0	0	0	77
Surrey	24	38	42	40	11	2	0	0	191
West Sussex	13	38	55	45	4	0	0	0	182
South West	120	225	268	198	26	1	0	0	1,049
Bath and NE Somerset	6	11	7	14	1	0	0	0	50
City of Bristol	23	36	37	16	1	0	0	0	151
North Somerset	5	11	12	13	1	0	0	0	48
South Gloucestershire	5	8	10	14	2	0	0	0	47
Cornwall	8	17	22	24	0	0	0	0	81
Isles of Scilly	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Torbay	4	10	5	4	0	0	0	0	29
City of Plymouth	4	6	12	7	0	0	0	0	43
Devon	9	22	27	18	1	0	0	0	113
Bournemouth	3	7	14	9	1	0	0	0	39
Poole	0	8	9	1	0	0	0	0	19
Dorset	8	13	9	15	11	0	0	0	66
Gloucestershire	15	40	43	18	6	0	0	0	144
Somerset	13	14	14	18	0	1	0	0	75
Swindon	4	5	13	9	0	0	0	0	38
Wiltshire	13	17	34	18	2	0	0	0	106
¹ Age as at 31 August 1997

Source:

Annual Schools' Census 1999