Written question asked by Parmjit Singh Gill (Liberal Democrat) on Monday, 21 March 2005, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Thursday, 24 March 2005. It was answered by Derek Twigg (Labour) on Thursday, 24 March 2005 on behalf of the Department for Education and Skills.

Dept for Education and Skills

Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many pupils between the ages of 11 to 18 years in Leicester South have been expelled for (a) drugs offences, (b) truancy and (c) bullying since 1997.

Answer: Mr. Gill: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many pupils between the ages of 11 and 18 years in Leicester, South have been expelled for (a) drugs offences, (b) truancy and (c) bullying since 1997. [223648] Derek Twigg: The information going back to 1997 is not held centrally. We started to collect reasons for exclusions on a termly basis from the summer term 2003. However, due to concerns over the reliability of the first set of data, the full data on reasons for exclusion were not published in the Experimental First Release (ESR 01/2004), a copy of which is in the Library. The next Statistical First Release on exclusions, including reasons for exclusion, will be published in June 2005.

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