Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what comparative assessment he has made of the rate of exclusions of secondary school pupils in (a) Sunderland and (b) England.

The National Statistics release ‘Permanent and fixed-period exclusions in England 2016 to 2017’ includes information on the number and rate of permanent and fixed period exclusions.

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

The local authority tables give information at local authority, region, and national level.