Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate his Department has made of the number of pupils suspended from school for breaching drug and alcohol rules in Havering in each of the last five years.

The National Statistics release ‘Permanent and fixed-period exclusions in England 2016 to 2017’ includes information on permanent and fixed period exclusions by reason. The full release is available here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/permanent-and-fixed-period-exclusions-in-england-2016-to-2017.

Information for local authorities by reason and academic year is available in the 'Underlying data' section of the release.