Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children were excluded from school in (a) London and (b) the UK in each year since 2010.

The National Statistics release ‘Permanent and fixed-period exclusions in England 2016 to 2017’ includes numbers and rates of exclusions. The full release is available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/permanent-and-fixed-period-exclusions-in-england-2016-to-2017.

Information for regions and England by academic year is available in the Underlying data section of the release, in the file “national_region_la_school_data_exc1617.csv”. The data can be filtered by the columns “year, “level” and “region_name”.

Information for Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales are produced by the relevant Departments.