§ Ms Janet AndersonTo ask the Secretary of State for Education if he will list, by education authority area, the number of pupils in receipt of(a) free school meals and (b) clothing grants for each year since 1987; and if he will indicate, in each case, what percentage this represents of the total number of pupils in each area.
§ Mr. ForthThe information requested on take-up of free school meals in January 1992—the latest date for which information is available—is shown in the table. Similar information for January 1989 and subsequent years is published annually in the Statistics of Education (Schools) Volumes, copies of which are available in the Library. Information prior to 1989 is not available on a comparable basis although the results of early school meals censuses were published by the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy up to 1988 in "—School Meal Statistics at October " copies of which are available in the Library.
Information on the number of pupils in receipt of clothing grants is not collected centrally.
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Primary (including nursery) Secondary Special LEA number percentage number percentage number percentage Lambeth 6,720 35 1,607 26 324 43 Lewisham 5,188 26 2,257 21 154 38 Southwark 7,162 34 2,433 27 160 45 Tower Hamlets 9,179 45 4,406 40 269 57 Wandsworth 4,822 28 1,903 20 202 39 Westminster 2,949 32 1,992 28 63 47 Barking 2,330 15 665 7 30 19 Barnet 2,738 11 1,467 8 56 18 Bexley 2,030 11 714 5 88 32 Brent 4,574 21 1,789 15 119 34 Bromley 2,257 11 1,165 7 65 18 Croydon 4,217 16 1,466 9 157 31 Ealing 4,830 17 1,831 16 138 30 Enfield 3,096 14 1,548 9 137 32 Haringey 4,992 27 2,240 26 116 34 Harrow 1,277 7 536 7 40 20 Havering 1,560 8 724 5 51 23 Hillingdon 1,436 7 938 7 86 21 Hounslow 2,942 15 1,600 12 90 23 Kingston upon Thames 705 7 340 5 37 16 Merton 1,982 13 706 10 64 26 Newham 5,758 23 2,429 18 130 38 Redbridge 1,981 11 1,081 8 73 19 Richmond upon Thames 824 8 560 8 30 20 Sutton 1,122 9 552 5 54 22 Waltham Forest 4,355 22 2,102 17 214 28 Birmingham 32,673 30 15,042 23 1,327 48 Coventry 6,863 23 2,600 14 281 37 Dudley 3,780 14 1,711 10 183 32 Sandwell 6,727 21 2,329 13 328 42 Solihull 2,572 13 892 6 81 29 Walsall 5,823 20 2,786 15 207 38 Wolverhampton 5,445 22 1,870 12 187 38 Knowsley 6,867 37 2,544 29 312 55 Liverpool 15,828 31 6,888 24 670 46 St. Helens 3,379 19 1,310 11 169 36 Sefton 4,850 18 2,308 12 163 38 Wirral 7,391 24 3,849 18 305 40 Bolton 4,766 17 1,823 11 166 35 Bury 2,334 14 806 8 99 40 Manchester 18,506 40 6,154 26 734 42 Oldham 5,461 23 2,519 16 201 34 Rochdale 4,915 22 2,049 16 173 36 Salford 6,748 29 1,686 13 160 35 Stockport 3,588 14 1,495 8 118 29 Tameside 4,408 19 1,637 12 143 35 Trafford 2,942 15 1,186 11 102 26 Wigan 5,061 17 1,795 9 318 40 Barnsley 4,197 20 1,442 12 63 40 Doncaster 6,568 22 2,699 13 259 38 Rotherham 4,798 19 1,723 10 245 39 Sheffield 9,924 21 3,278 14 315 45 Bradford 8,984 22 9,588 21 310 32 Calderdale 3,528 18 1,403 11 50 25 Kirklees 6,185 17 2,742 10 205 36 Leeds 9,398 17 7,099 14 326 33 Wakefield 4,707 16 2,184 11 215 39 Gateshead 4,640 26 1,360 12 141 41 Newcastle upon Tyne 7,605 33 2,716 16 269 37 North Tyneside 3,017 18 1,526 10 161 37 South Tyneside 4,584 28 1,376 15 137 40 Sunderland 7,611 25 2,651 14 266 38 Isles of Scilly 8 5 23 25 0 0 Avon 12,852 16 4,496 8 575 32 Bedfordshire 6,053 14 4,629 10 293 28 Berkshire 5,350 9 2,018 4 336 21 Buckinghamshire 3,392 6 1,366 4 322 25 Cambridgeshire 6,768 12 2,907 7 212 23 Cheshire 11,950 13 5,033 8 291 25 Cleveland 15,336 24 5,650 14 548 40 Cornwall 5,846 15 3,058 11 101 42 Cumbria 5,205 12 2002 7 76 25 Derbyshire 11,351 13 4,662 8 375 30 Devon 11,598 15 4763 8 434 28 Dorset 2,995 7 2,423 6 243 23 Durham 11,724 20 3,968 11 402 43 East Sussex 7,282 15 3,071 9 384 30
Primary (including nursery) Secondary Special LEA number percentage number percentage number percentage Essex 14,808 12 5,890 6 583 24 Gloucestershire 4,774 11 1,905 6 351 29 Hampshire 15,169 12 4,579 5 864 25 Hereford and Worcester 3,848 8 2,776 6 274 24 Hertfordshire 7,643 9 3,744 6 387 24 Humberside 13,969 17 6,339 11 382 34 Isle of Wight 1,314 19 1,425 14 68 27 Kent 15,577 13 6,838 7 665 24 Lancashire 23,320 18 10,430 13 1,102 36 Leicestershire 10,669 14 4,604 8 300 32 Lincolnshire 2,812 6 2,104 6 263 28 Norfolk 7,511 12 2,394 6 183 23 North Yorkshire 4,944 9 2,012 5 162 20 Northamptonshire 4,441 9 3,160 7 237 21 Northumberland 3,210 15 2,403 8 119 28 Nottinghamshire 15,939 18 6,981 11 517 32 Oxfordshire 3,843 9 2,011 6 155 20 Shropshire 4,924 14 2,088 8 176 33 Somerset 3,132 9 1,726 6 161 27 Staffordshire 13,618 15 4,946 7 623 31 Suffolk 4,535 11 3,019 6 128 19 Surrey 5,821 8 1,338 3 273 19 Warwickshire 4,660 10 1,310 5 361 31 West Sussex 4,922 10 1,910 5 205 19 Wiltshire 4,676 10 1,987 6 145 25 England 681,167 16 294,297 10 26,504 32