Question to the Department for Education:

To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Nash on 14 May (WA 533), if school exclusion data for the years 1980 and 1990 are not held by the Department for Education, from where they can be obtained.

Permanent exclusions data was first collected in 1994/95. Information on fixed period exclusions was only collected from 2003/04.

Information on exclusion rates prior to 2005/06 was collected via the Termly Exclusions Survey rather than the School Census.