Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 16 November 2017 to Question 111784, if she will make it her policy to collect data on pupils who are prevented from attending a school outside of the formal exclusion process.

We do not believe that collecting information on pupils being prevented from attending school outside the formal exclusions process is practical.

The government has recently announced an externally led review of exclusions practice and implications for pupil groups disproportionately represented in the national statistics. The review will consider how schools use exclusion and how this impacts on all pupils, but particular why some groups of children are more likely to be excluded from school. The department will publish full details of the review, including how views can be submitted, in due course.