Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many secondary school children have been off-rolled by their school in (a) the London Borough of Lewisham, (b) London and (c) England in each of the last seven years.

The Department does collect, via the school census, figures for the number of children on the schools admission register at three points during each academic year, but this will not provide a full or accurate indication of the numbers of pupils removed from the school register.

The grounds on which a pupil’s name can be lawfully deleted from a school’s admission register are prescribed in regulation 8 of the Education (Pupil Registration) (England) Regulations 2006 as amended.