Pupil Exclusions: Milton Keynes

House of Commons Hansard

25 March 2010

Volume 508

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Mr. Lancaster

To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many children have been permanently excluded from (a) primary, (b) middle, (c) upper and (d) secondary schools in Milton Keynes in each year since 1997. [315374]

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Ms Diana R. Johnson

The available information requested is shown in the table.

From 2002, the Department has carried out a checking exercise to confirm the overall number of permanent exclusions. However, this only confirms the number of exclusions in each local authority area and not at school level. Therefore information for middle and upper schools is not separately identifiable.

The latest data on exclusions were published in a Statistical First Release on 30 July 2009 at:

http://www.dcsf.gov.uk/rsgateway/DB/SFR/s000860/index.shtml

*Maintained primary and secondary schools*¹*: Number of pupil enrolments*² *with permanent exclusions, 1996/97 to 2007/08, Milton Keynes local authority*
	Primary¹	State-funded secondary^{1, 3}
	Number of permanent exclusions	Percentage of the school population⁴	Number of permanent exclusions	Percentage of the school population⁴
1996/97	10	0.05	20	0.21
1997/98	—	—	40	0.34
1998/99	10	0.05	10	0.12
1999/2000	20	0.09	20	0.13
2000/01	10	0.04	10	0.08
2001/02	20	0.09	30	0.20
2002/03⁵	20	0.08	30	0.21
2003/04⁵	20	0.07	20	0.16
2004/05⁵	10	0.06	40	0.27
2005/06⁵	*	*	50	0.30
2006/07⁵	10	0.05	40	0.28
2007/08⁵	10	0.03	30	0.20
Data are as published, i.e. using the following notation: * = less than 3, or a rate based on less than 3. — = less than 5, or a rate based on less than 5. ¹ Includes middle schools as deemed (upper schools are included as secondary). ² Pupils may be counted more than once if they were registered at more than one school or moved schools during the school year. ³ State-funded secondary schools include maintained secondary schools, city technology colleges and academies. Milton Keynes local authority has no city technology colleges or academies. ⁴ The number of permanent exclusions expressed as a percentage of the number (headcount) of all pupils (excluding dually registered pupils) in January each year of the relevant school type. ⁵ Estimates based on local authority figures following a checking exercise to confirm the overall number of permanent exclusions in each local authority. Note: Figures have been rounded to the nearest 10. Source: Termly Exclusions Survey and School Census.