Speeches

Derek Twigg – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Education

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Derek Twigg on 2016-04-13.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children were excluded from academy schools in Halton in each year since 2010.

Nick Gibb

The number of permanent and fixed period exclusions in secondary academies in Halton local authority in each year since 2010/11 is provided in the table below. Note that the figures relate to secondary academies only as there were no special academies in Halton in the period the figures relate to and there were no permanent or fixed period exclusions reported by the primary academies in the area.

Number of secondary academies

Number of permanent exclusions[1]

Number of fixed period exclusions

2010/11

1

x

39

2011/12

2

6

144

2012/13

3

x

158

2013/14

4

x

228

The number of permanent and fixed period exclusions in each of the years for all other secondary schools (i.e. those that are not academies) in Halton local authority is provided in the table below.

Number of schools

Number of permanent exclusions

Number of fixed period exclusions

2010/11

6

9

639

2011/12

5

5

565

2012/13

5

13

461

2013/14

4

9

388

[1] Figures marked “x” are suppressed as they are less than 5