Education committee chair Robert Halfon has written to Education Secretary Damian Hinds, saying the move is needed to help tackle knife crime.
Handing councils greater powers to monitor exclusions could help promote early support to young people, keep them in mainstream education and deter them from knife crime, he writes.
Halfon highlights a "clear correlation between exclusions and knife crime", with young people not in mainstream education at greater risk of becoming involved in gangs and other criminal activity.
The powers would help local authorities track what happens to a disadvantaged young person with special needs as they pass through the education system - views expressed by former Ofsted chief Sir Michael Wilshaw recently.
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