HC Deb 02 July 1996 vol 280 cc378-80W
Mr. Byers

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what is for each local education authority the percentage of (i) the total number of pupils and (ii) the number of pupils taking school meals who receive a free meal. [35365]

Mrs. Gillan

The latest available information is in the following table:

Day pupils taking free school meals In maintained schools in each Local Education Authority area in England January 1995
Day pupils taking free meals as a percentage of: all day pupils pupils taking a meal
Corporation of London 47 62
Camden 28 50
Greenwich 30 60
Hackney 45 66
Hammersmith and Fulham 35 52
Islington 39 63
Kensington and Chelsea 34 51
Lambeth 39 58
Lewisham 31 54
Southwark 39 61
Tower Hamlets 47 77
Wandsworth 30 48
Westminster 37 58
Barking and Dagenham 19 44
Barnet 14 26
Bexley 12 35
Brent 24 53
Bromley 13 30
Croydon 20 41
Ealing 23 48
Enfield 16 41
Haringey 33 57
Harrow 10 54
Havering 11 25
Hillingdon 11 37
Hounslow 19 39
Kingston upon Thames 7 37
Merton 16 43
Newham 29 65
Redbridge 14 29
Richmond upon Thames 11 30
Sutton 10 23
Waltham Forest 27 50
Birmingham 30 54
Coventry 20 63
Dudley 15 36
Sandwell 20 53
Solihull 13 26
Walsall 20 42
Wolverhampton 21 49
Knowsley 36 70
Liverpool 32 59
St. Helens 18 37
Sefton 18 43
Wirral 23 45
Bolton 17 31
Bury 14 28
Manchester 39 65
Oldham 22 39
Rochdale 24 43
Salford 28 52
Stockport 14 29
Tameside 19 37
Trafford 16 38
Wigan 16 38
Barnsley 20 40
Doncaster 21 35
Rotheram 17 45
Sheffield 20 46
Bradford 23 44
Calderdale 17 33
Kirklees 17 35
Leeds 16 39
Wakefield 15 40
Gateshead 20 46
Day pupils taking free school meals in maintained schools in each Local Education Authority area in England January 1995
Day pupils taking free meals as a percentage of: all day pupils pupils taking a meal
Newcastle upon Tyne 28 52
North Tyneside 18 35
South Tyneside 27 45
Sunderland 21 48
Isles of Scilly 19 43
Avon 15 39
Bedfordshire 16 31
Berkshire 10 28
Buckinghamshire 7 40
Cambridge 12 32
Cheshire 13 29
Cleveland 24 48
Cornwall 15 34
Cumbria 12 25
Derbyshire 14 25
Devon 15 33
Dorset 8 39
Durham 18 36
East Sussex 16 39
Essex 13 33
Gloucestershire 11 35
Hampshire 12 34
Hereford and Worcester 9 34
Hertfordshire 10 23
Humberside 16 30
Isle of Wight 18 44
Kent 14 36
Lancashire 18 38
Leicestershire 13 31
Lincolnshire 7 32
Norfolk 12 33
North Yorkshire 9 19
Northamptonshire 10 43
Northumberland 13 25
Nottinghamshire 18 42
Oxfordshire 9 29
Shropshire 14 25
Somerset 10 37
Staffordshire 14 30
Suffolk 11 30
Surrey 9 18
Warwickshire 10 25
West Sussex 10 29
Wiltshire 11 30
England 17 38