HC Deb 14 April 1989 vol 150 cc724-5W
Mr. Dobson

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will give for each education authority and for Wales as a whole the 1988 figures for the percentage of schoolchildren(a) taking purchased school meals, (b) taking free school meals and (c) taking school meals in total.

Mr. Wyn Roberts

The information in respect of 1988 is in the following table:

Percentage of schoolchildren present: Taking school meals
Purchased Free Total
Clwyd 35.6 10.7 46.3
Dyfed 51.3 12.5 63.8
Gwent 39.0 16.3 55.3
Gwynedd 43.0 13.8 58.8
Mid Glamorgan 34.4 17.5 51.9
Powys 50.8 5.4 56.2
South Glamorgan 25.6 16.5 42.1
West Glamorgan 33.6 156 49.2
Wales 37.4 14.6 52.0