§ Mr. RuaneTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if he will list the 50 local education authorities with the highest number of exclusions expressed as a percentage of their school population for the last year for which figures are available. [113277]
§ Ms Estelle MorrisThe information is shown in the table.
Information on permanent exclusions for the academic year 1998–99 is currently being collected and national estimates are expected to be published in a Statistical First Release in May.
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Number and percentage of permanent exclusions in maintained primary, secondary and special schools 1 by local education
authority area 2
England 1997–98
Number of permanent exclusions Percentage of the school population3 Kensington and Chelsea 38 0.37 Doncaster 197 0.37 Westminster 63 0.36 Hammersmith and Fulham 52 0.33 Reading4 54 0.31 Derby 112 0.30 City of Bristol 151 0.30 Southwark 96 0.29 South Tyneside 74 0.28 Manchester 198 0.28 Wandsworth 76 0.27 City of Nottingham4 116 0.27 Richmond-upon-Thames 54 0.27 Telford and Wrekin4 69 0.27 Brent 97 0.26 Salford 93 0.26 Stoke 101 0.26 Waltham Forest 89 0.26 Newcastle upon Tyne 102 0.25 Liverpool 206 0.25 Blackburn and Darwen4 62 0.24 Bracknell Forest4 38 0.24 Coventry 122 0.24 Sandwell 125 0.24 Lambeth 62 0.23 Lewisham 77 0.23 Croydon 108 0.23 Portsmouth 59 0.23 Thurrock4 48 0.22 Camden 50 0.22 Leicester City 109 0.22
Number and percentage of permanent exclusions in maintained primary, secondary, and special schools 1 by local education
authority area 2
England 1997–98
Number of permanent exclusions Percentage of the school population3 Birmingham 390 0.22 Southampton 67 0.22 Slough4 40 0.22 Bromley 93 0.21 Harrow 60 0.21 Windsor and Maidenhead4 38 0.20 Medway4 90 0.20 Hounslow 71 0.20 Blackpool4 40 0.20 Hartlepool 34 0.20 Bath and NE Somerset 50 0.20 Islington 47 0.20 Ealing 82 0.19 Havering 70 0.19 Leeds 225 0.19 Tameside 73 0.19 Enfield 87 0.19 Bexley 72 0.19 Darlington 29 0.19 1 Includes maintained and non maintained special schools 2 The table includes the 50 local education authorities with the highest percentage of permanent exclusions 3 The number of permanent exclusions expressed as a percentage of the number (headcount) of full and part-time pupils of all ages in primary, secondary and special schools, excluding dually registered pupils in special schools in January 1998 4 From April 1998