Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children have been permanently excluded from schools in each (a) region of and (b) local authority area in England in each of the last fifteen years.

The requested information is available in the Office for National Statistics’ release of data concerning permanent exclusions and suspensions in England from the 2006/07 academic year onwards. It is available here: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/permanent-and-fixed-period-exclusions-in-england.

In the explore data and files section, under open data, the file on permanent exclusions and suspensions by geography includes the numbers and rates of permanent exclusions at national, regional, and local authority levels.