§ Ms LynneTo ask the Secretary of State for Education how many pupils aged(a) under seven, (b) between seven and 11 and (c) over 11 years of age, in each local authority area in England received (i) school meals and (ii) pre-school meals.
§ Mr. Robin SquireInformation on the number of school meals taken by pupils in maintained nursery, primary and secondary schools in each local education authority in England in January 1994 is shown in the table. Information is not collected centrally on the take-up of school meals according to pupils' ages or in respect of the level of provision of school meals prior to the start of the school day.
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Numbers of day-pupils taking free and paid school meals in maintained schools in England—January 1994 Local education authority Nursery and primary Secondary Corporation of London 158 — Camden 6,974 4,736 Greenwich 10,946 5,200 Hackney 11,782 4,118 Hammersmith and Fulham 6,747 4,199 Islington 10,571 3,118 Kensington and Chelsea 4,249 2,081 Lambeth 13,079 4,075 Lewisham 12,874 5,049 Southwark 14,664 5,792 Tower Hamlets 15,262 6,455 Wandsworth 10,744 5,320 Westminster 6,696 4,018 Barking and Dagenham 7,296 3,062 Barnet 11,578 10,629 Bexley 7,464 4,270 Brent 10,984 4,563 Bromley 8,967 8,287 Croydon 13,197 7,255 Ealing 10,450 6,919 Enfield 9,711 6,628 Haringey 11,250 4,912 Harrow 1,538 3,103 Havering 7,951 4,922 Hillingdon 3,153 5,359 Hounslow 8,725 7,629 Kingston upon Thames 1,494 2,575 Merton 5,260 2,737 Newham 12,426 4,127 Redbridge 9,797 6,436 Richmond upon Thames 3,990 2,941 Sutton 5,501 5,514 Waltham Forest 10,914 5,482 Birmingham 57,414 38,742 Coventry 12,129 6,151 Dudley 11,222 7,338 Sandwell 12,994 5,355 Solihull 9,646 6,097 Walsall 11,010 9,534 Wolverhampton 10,920 6,064 Knowsley 9,856 4,458 Liverpool 28,663 15,538 St. Helens 7,452 6,681 Sefton 10,469 8,443 Wirral 15,996 9,952 Bolton 14,934 9,781 Bury 8,986 4,845 Manchester 31,966 11,742 Oldham 15,048 8,522 Rochdale 12,432 6,444 Salford 15,298 4,785 Stockport 11,955 8,873 Tameside 12,030 6,497 Trafford 7,207 6,915 Wigan 13,059 8,537 Barnsley 10,865 5,495 Doncaster 20,008 10,463 Rotherham 12,392 4,412 Sheffield 19,845 11,030 Bradford 21,378 24,339 Calderdale 10,710 5,282 Kirklees 21,461 9,675 Leeds 32,138 19,354 Wakefield 12,675 5,887 Gateshead 10,742 2,583 Newcastle upon Tyne 13,874 7,729 North Tyneside 8,942 6,550 South Tyneside 10,454 4,493 Sunderland 16,611 5,626 Isles of Scilly 62 49 Avon 34,730 18,630
Numbers of day-pupils taking free and paid school meals in maintained schools in England—January 1994 Local education authority Nursery and primary Secondary Bedfordshire 24,683 20,713 Berkshire 23,039 19,421 Buckinghamshire 6,494 8,747 Cambridgeshire 24,007 13,364 Cheshire 37,448 30,965 Cleveland 37,517 14,582 Cornwall 17,108 15,240 Cumbria 21,183 16,741 Derbyshire 45,941 36,572 Devon 31,987 30,391 Dorset 4,254 14,105 Durham 37,023 15,187 East Sussex 22,514 12,316 Essex 47,946 35,338 Gloucestershire 12,452 10,215 Hampshire 48,253 28,470 Hereford and Worcester 8,400 15,251 Hertfordshire 40,492 28,858 Humberside 48,464 29,348 Isle of Wight 3,354 4,471 Kent 52,317 40,914 Lancashire 58,919 44,315 Leicestershire 32,602 24,727 Lincolnshire 4,367 14,978 Norfolk 25,741 13,836 North Yorkshire 26,083 22,807 Northamptonshire 7,626 14,117 Northumberland 12,125 14,835 Nottinghamshire 42,364 24,073 Oxfordshire 14,431 10,433 Shropshire 18,248 13,604 Somerset 6,238 9,635 Staffordshire 48,268 24,216 Suffolk 18,188 17,816 Surrey 36,255 20,432 Warwickshire 18,472 10,011 West Sussex 21,725 11,809 Wiltshire 15,971 13,703 England 1,886,464 1,250,958