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Dept for Education and Skills

Answer

Mr. Flook: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many pupils have been excluded from state (a) primary and (b) secondary schools at each of the key stages in each year since 1997 in Somerset. [77764] Mr. Miliband: The available information is shown in the table. Information collected centrally on permanent exclusions does not record the key stage of the pupil; a breakdown of the figures by age is given as a proxy. Figures are not available centrally on fixed-term exclusions. Maintained primary and secondary schools in Somerset local education authority: number of permanent exclusions by age of pupils(England 1996-97 to 2000-011 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Age of pupils Primary schools2 6 and under 7 to 10 Total 1996-97 Number of permanent exclusions 4 14 18 Percentage of all permanent 22.2 77.8 100.0 exclusions3 Percentage of school population4 0.02 0.07 0.05 1997-98 Number of permanent exclusions 2 9 11 Percentage of all permanent 18.2 81.8 100.0 exclusions3 Percentage of school population4 0.01 0.04 0.03 1998-99 Number of permanent exclusions 1 5 6 Percentage of all permanent 16.7 83.3 100.0 exclusions3 Percentage of school population4 0.01 0.02 0.02 1999-2000 Number of permanent exclusions 0 12 12 Percentage of all permanent 0.0 100.0 100.0 exclusions3 Percentage of school population4 0.00 0.06 0.03 2000-011 Number of permanent exclusions 5 10 15 Percentage of all permanent 33.3 66.7 100.0 exclusions3 Percentage of school population4 0.03 0.05 0.04 _________________________________________________________________________________________________.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

77764; 391 c903-5W;391 c913-5W

Session

2001-02

Subjects

Pupil exclusions Primary education Secondary education Somerset

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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