HC Deb 03 December 2002 vol 395 c724W
Jeff Ennis

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many local education authorities have established total exclusion units to take pupils who have been permanently excluded from their schools. [84978]

Mr. Stephen Twigg

Currently, 139 of the 150 local education authorities, including Barnsley LEA, have Pupil Referral Units, which are used in the education of permanently excluded pupils.