HC Deb 23 July 1999 vol 335 c689W
Mr. Love

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment how many(a) primary and (b) secondary school pupils have been (i) temporarily and (ii) permanently excluded from school; and what proportion of each were from ethnic minorities in each London borough over the last five years. [91784]

Number of permanent exclusions, maintained primary and secondary schools in the London Boroughs 1995/96–1997/98
1995–96
Primary Secondary
Borough Total exclusions Percentage Ethnic minorities1 Total exclusions Percentage Ethnic minorities1
City of London 0 0 0 0
Camden 6 83 41 46
Greenwich 17 35 71 45
Hackney 11 91 25 84
Hammersmith and Fulham 9 56 55 64
Islington 13 46 58 52
Kensington and Chelsea 8 88 19 53
Lambeth 11 91 45 69
Lewisham 16 63 59 64
Southwark 13 54 71 73
Tower Hamlets 8 38 44 61
Wandsworth 9 89 85 71
Westminster 5 60 66 73
Barking 17 24 50 16
Barnet 10 40 67 43
Bexley 8 0 52 8
Brent 5 80 103 84
Bromley 8 0 101 26
Croydon 12 17 101 51
Ealing 14 57 80 69
Enfield 3 67 89 39
Haringey 7 86 41 95
Harrow 5 0 59 47
Havering 3 0 69 3
Hillingdon 9 22 58 14
Hounslow 11 27 74 45
Kingston upon Thames 4 0 34 9
Merton 8 63 39 31
Newham 4 50 38 45
Redbridge 3 67 29 41
Richmond upon Thames 3 0 47 19
Sutton 7 0 23 9
Waltham Forest 11 55 101 55