Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will publish the number of (a) fixed-term and (b) permanent school exclusions by local authority area for each of the last five years.

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.

In the underlying data, the file ‘national_region_la_school_data_exc1617.csv’ includes information at local authority level by year.