Written Question·Department for Education·UIN 72110

Pupil Exclusions: Primary Education

Tabled: 29 August 2025
Answered: 25 September 2025

Question

Tom Morrison

Liberal DemocratCheadle

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department collects data on (a) internal and (b) fixed-term exclusions in primary schools, broken down by race.

Answer

Olivia Bailey
The department does not collect data on circumstances where schools remove a pupil from the classroom, for serious disciplinary reasons, and where they are required to spend a limited time out of the classroom. Some schools call this internal suspension.T...

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