Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many (a) exclusions for violence against an adult and (b) exclusions for verbal abuse or threatening behaviour against an adult there have been in each of the last 20 years for which data available.

The National Statistics release, ‘Permanent and fixed-period exclusions in England 2016 to 2017’, includes information on the number 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 data includes information on exclusions by main reason and year from 2006/07 to 2016/17. Comparable data is not available before 2006/07.