Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children with autism as their primary educational special need received a permanent or fixed period exclusion in Barnsley in each of the last seven years.

The first accompanying table provides the numbers of pupils with autism as their primary need who received fixed period and permanent exclusions in Barnsley local authority in the last seven years.

The second accompanying table shows the number of pupils with an education, health and care plan or a statement of special educational needs who received a permanent or fixed-period exclusion in Barnsley local authority in each of the last seven years.