§ Mr. MilburnTo ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how many(a) secondary and (b) primary school children who have been permanently excluded have received tuition (i) at home and (ii) in a pupil referral unit in each of the past five years. [35840]
§ Mr. RichardsThe information requested is not collected centrally.
§ Mr. MilburnTo ask the Secretary of State for Wales (1) how many(a) secondary and (b) primary school children have been permanently excluded in each local education authority in each of the last five years, and if he will give the figures as a proportion of the total school roll; [35843]
(2) how many (a) secondary and (b) primary school children have been permanently excluded in each of the past five years. [35845]
§ Mr. RichardsFollowing the Elton committee of inquiry into discipline in schools, the Welsh Office monitored through the national exclusions reporting system, the incidence and circumstances of permanent exclusions over a two-year period from the summer of 1990. A total of 192 exclusions reported, of which 11 per cent. were in the primary sector. The breakdown by local education authority is as follows:
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Number Clwyd 32 Dyfed 10 Gwent 49 Gwynedd 9 Mid Glamorgan 63
Number Powys 7 South Glamorgan 11 West Glamorgan 11 Since then, no information on exclusion has been collected centrally.