Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of (a) boys and (b) girls were permanently excluded from (i) state-funded secondary, (ii) state-funded primary and (iii) special or Pupil Referral Unit schools in England in each of the last five school workforce reporting years for which information is available.

​​The information requested on state funded primary, state funded secondary and special schools is available from the National Statistics release on suspensions and permanent exclusions at this link:

​https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/permanent-and-fixed-period-exclusions-in-england/2020-21.

​Data can be accessed from the Explore data and files section, using the ‘Create your own tables’ function. A table containing figures for Pupil Referral Units is provided.