Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate he has made of average length of time of pupil suspensions in (a) primary schools, (b) secondary schools, and (c) special schools in (i) Oxford, (ii) Oxfordshire, (iii) South East England, and (iv) England in (A) 2019-20 and (B) 2020-21.

Information on the numbers and rates of permanent exclusions and suspensions is available in the national statistics release “Permanent exclusions and suspensions in England.” This can be found at: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/permanent-and-fixed-period-exclusions-in-england.

The release includes data at national, regional, local authority, local authority district and school level. Data is not yet available for the academic year 2020-21, as this is due to be published in July 2022. Tables relating to 2019-20 giving the number and rate of permanent exclusions and suspensions by school type have been produced using the ‘create tables’ tool at the following links:

• Oxfordshire, South East and England: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/ce18be44-a5aa-4e3f-ba27-34e5d9e5a38a
• Oxford: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/48f9a035-9123-477e-8249-aae4b0ca3ed3

The attached table shows the average length of suspensions.