Department for Education written question – answered at on 23 July 2025.
Dan Carden
Labour, Liverpool Walton
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 14 July 2025 to Question 66249 on Pupil Exclusions, what her planned timetable is for her Department's changes to data collection to be made.
Stephen Morgan
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Education
The proposed changes to the data collection, aimed at strengthening the oversight and monitoring of all exclusion through the school census, will require legislative amendments. As such they are subject to parliamentary procedure and are expected to come into effect for the 2026/27 academic year.
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