Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of children in year (a) nine, (b) 10 and (c) 11 left full-time education after permanent exclusion from a school in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement.

Information on the number and rate of permanent exclusions is published in the annual permanent and fixed period exclusions statistical release which can be found at the following link: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-exclusions. Data broken down by National Curriculum year group is published in table 3 and a time series is provided in the underlying data.

Information is not held centrally on the number of children who left full time education after a permanent exclusion in National Curriculum Years 9-11. Local authorities have a statutory duty to arrange suitable full time education for permanently excluded children of compulsory school age, which must begin no later than six days after the exclusion.

Following the Timpson review, the Department has committed to make schools accountable for the outcomes of permanently excluded pupils. Over the summer, the Department will work with education leaders to design a consultation, to be launched in the autumn, on how to deliver these reforms in practice.