Free School Meals

HC Deb 24 April 1995 vol 258 cc358-61W

Ms Estelle Morris

To ask the Secretary of State for Education (1) what proportion of children in voluntary aided schools are entitled to free school meals in each local authority; [20287]

(2) what proportion of children in grant-maintained schools are entitled to free school meals in each local authority; [20287]

(3) what proportion of children in selective schools are entitled to free school meals in each local education authority; [20287]

(4) what is the proportion of secondary age children who are entitled to free school meals in each local education authority. [20287]

Mr. Robin Squire

The percentages of pupils known to be eligible for free school meals in each of the categories requested are shown in the table.

Percentage1 of pupils known to be eligible for free school meals in voluntary aided schools, grant-maintained schools, selective schools and all secondary schools for each local education authority and in England
January 1994
	Voluntary aided schools2	Grant maintained schools3
	Primary	Secondary	All	Primary	Secondary	All	Selective schools2 3 4	All Secondary schools
Solihull	14.0	17.3	15.1	42.8	—	42.8	—	12.0
Walsall	17.0	25.5	20.1	3.2	11.9	11.1	3.0	25.1
Wolverhampton	24.7	16.3	21.1	—	24.9	24.9	3.1	25.3
Knowsley	44.7	57.8	47.8	—	55.1	55.1	—	51.8
Liverpool	38.4	35.8	37.4	—	26.7	26.7	—	39.2
St Helens	22.2	13.1	19.7	—	—	—	—	17.4
Sefton	24.7	24.9	24.7	—	—	—	—	20.7
Wirral	28.3	35.1	30.2	—	4.1	4.1	4.1	25.8
Bolton	18.2	11.3	16.4	24.7	8.8	11.0	—	16.4
Bury	17.4	8.9	14.6	21.6	—	21.6	—	13.5
Manchester	43.1	38.4	41.6	—	—	—	—	43.4
Oldham	24.8	9.5	19.4	—	—	—	—	53.5
Rochdale	22.0	22.2	22.1	15.5	16.9	16.3	—	28.9
Salford	30.8	29.2	30.5	—	15.6	15.6	—	26.3
Stockport	13.6	12.8	13.4	—	—	—	—	14.4
Tameside	18.9	13.7	17.6	—	11.3	11.3	—	19.8
Trafford	14.7	35.0	16.2	—	22.9	22.9	6.3	20.0
Wigan	20.5	12.5	18.3	—	—	—	—	17.5
Barnsley	16.8	—	16.8	—	—	—	—	22.8
Doncaster	19.0	16.1	18.2	—	—	—	—	22.5
Rotherham	21.7	19.5	21.3	—	—	—	—	18.5
Sheffield	24.7	—	24.7	12.0	16.7	15.6	—	24.2
Bradford	21.1	18.7	20.3	33.7	21.3	21.9	—	31.2
Calderdale	15.8	15.4	15.8	2.4	9.4	9.2	7.0	18.1
Kirklees	17.8	12.7	16.9	—	6.2	6.2	4.0	17.6
Leeds	16.4	19.5	17.3	4.5	7.6	7.4	—	18.7
Wakefield	14.7	8.9	13.2	—	—	—	—	17.3
Gateshead	27.9	27.0	27.6	—	—	—	—	24.9
Newcastle upon Tyne	34.4	19.8	28.7	—	—	—	—	27.4
North Tyneside	22.9	14.0	20.9	—	—	—	—	18.2
South Tyneside	29.6	19.2	25.4	—	—	—	—	25.8
Sunderland	21.0	13.4	17.5	—	—	—	—	25.8
Isles of Scilly	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	35.8
Avon	19.0	12.3	17.4	—	9.4	9.4	—	15.5
Bedfordshire	15.6	15.7	15.7	18.6	12.4	12.9	—	16.6
Berkshire	10.0	5.6	8.7	13.5	8.1	9.4	4.5	8.5
Buckinghamshire	2.6	7.1	3.5	15.0	8.4	9.7	1.5	8.6
Cambridgeshire	18.1	13.4	17.7	7.6	12.8	12.2	—	13.1
Cheshire	15.5	15.9	15.6	4.6	12.0	10.9	—	12.0
Cleveland	25.6	22.5	24.4	—	—	—	—	28.0
Cornwall	14.4	—	14.4	—	—	—	—	15.9
Cumbria	14.1	11.5	13.6	10.7	8.3	8.7	—	12.1
Derbyshire	14.2	14.4	14.3	9.6	10.3	10.2	—	13.5
Devon	17.2	11.0	16.0	35.0	9.7	11.2	5.3	12.9
Dorset	6.0	5.9	5.9	5.1	9.4	9.2	7.4	10.2
Durham	19.3	13.0	16.9	—	—	—	—	17.4
East Sussex	19.0	19.1	19.0	—	—	—	—	18.1
Essex	13.0	12.3	12.8	14.2	10.8	11.5	2.7	12.3
Gloucestershire	10.2	12.0	10.5	17.1	9.5	10.0	4.4	11.0
Hampshire	10.7	13.5	11.2	15.1	9.1	10.3	—	10.6
Hereford and Worcester	8.1	4.9	7.4	—	7.1	7.1	—	9.6
Hertfordshire	9.6	6.0	8.7	15.1	7.9	8.3	—	9.6
Humberside	32.3	15.6	26.5	10.3	—	10.3	—	17.3
Isle of Wight	24.9	17.3	22.1	—	—	—	—	21.0
Kent	15.1	14.9	15.0	15.5	12.1	12.4	3.9	13.2
Lancashire	19.5	14.8	18.5	6.2	7.3	7.2	2.7	19.7
Leicestershire	10.6	8.7	10.1	—	12.2	12.2	—	12.5
Lincolnshire	4.7	4.6	4.7	8.2	9.9	9.4	4.3	9.8
Norfolk	15.0	7.2	13.1	14.3	12.6	13.0	—	10.7
North Yorkshire	8.9	5.3	7.3	—	—	—	2.7	7.4
Northamptonshire	10.3	12.9	11.5	8.3	15.0	13.4	—	12.5
Northumberland	11.6	9.2	10.9	—	8.5	8.5	—	12.7
Nottinghamshire	16.4	13.9	15.3	—	24.0	24.0	—	20.0
Oxfordshire	10.8	13.9	11.4	2.5	—	2.5	—	9.8
Shropshire	14.0	12.8	13.8	9.0	14.4	14.0	0.7	13.6
Somerset	8.8	13.7	9.2	3.6	1.5	2.9	13.2	10.7
Staffordshire	16.2	9.0	14.0	0.0	14.1	14.0	—	13.3

Percentage1 of pupils known to be eligible for free school meals in voluntary aided schools, grant-maintained schools, selective schools and all secondary schools for each local education authority and in England
January 1994
	Voluntary aided schools2	Grant maintained schools3
	Primary	Secondary	All	Primary	Secondary	All	Selective schools2 3 4	All Secondary schools
Suffolk	10.7	9.8	10.4	—	—	—	—	11.7
Surrey	9.2	5.2	8.3	9.5	6.0	6.5	—	7.2
Warwickshire	14.0	5.5	11.7	—	9.6	9.6	1.7	8.7
West Sussex	12.0	8.8	10.9	—	—	—	—	9.2
Wiltshire	11.8	14.7	11.9	19.9	7.5	9.1	2.3	9.8
England	19.9	20.3	20.0	14.8	12.5	12.8	3.7	17.7
1 Pupils known to be eligible for free meals in each category expressed as a proportion of day pupils in each category.
2 Some voluntary schools are selective.
3 Some Grant-maintained schools are selective.
4 Schools which admit pupils wholly or mainly with reference to ability or aptitude—there are no schools of this type in the LEA.