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PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Free School Meals (20 March 2017)

Question Asked

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children in (a) York, (b) North Yorkshire, (c) Yorkshire and the Humber and (d) England received free school meals in each year since 2005-06.

Asked by:
Rachael Maskell (Labour)

Answer

Data for the number of pupils eligible for free school meals in each school in England are available in the underlying data in each of the annual ‘Schools, pupils and their characteristics’ statistical releases.[1]

The number of pupils attending schools in York, North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber and England who were known to be eligible for and claiming free school meals in each year since 2006 is given in the below table.

Year

York local authority

North Yorkshire local authority

Yorkshire and the Humber

England

2006[2]

2,176

5,914

120,070

1,119,220

20072

2,104

5,947

115,680

1,089,030

2008[3]

2,037

5,951

117,700

1,103,310

20093

2,095

6,047

119,450

1,124,720

2010

2,242

6,999

129,171

1,215,423

2011

2,394

7,083

132,120

1,262,855

2012

2,483

7,187

136,581

1,286,318

2013

2,461

7,133

140,467

1,311,496

2014

2,289

6,534

138,613

1,261,899

2015

1,946

6,449

131,119

1,195,641

2016

2,023

5,920

126,580

1,142,043

Source: School Census, January of each year

[1] www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-school-and-pupil-numbers - click on the relevant year and then ‘underlying data.’ The data are contained in files with ‘Schools_Pupils’ in the title.

[2] Excluding special schools and pupils in alternative provision.

[3] Excluding pupils in alternative provision.


Answered by:
Edward Timpson (Conservative)
27 March 2017

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