Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many times children have been transferred to a pupil referral unit for behavioural problems in each of the last five years.

The requested information on the number of pupils entering pupil referral units because of behavioural problems is not held by the Department for Education.

Information on the total number of pupils enrolled in pupil referral units in the last five years is available in the “Schools, pupils and their characteristics: January 2014” Statistical First Release (table 2a), which is published online at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/schools-pupils-and-their-characteristics-january-2014