HC Deb 06 March 1998 vol 307 cc803-5W
Mr. Don Foster

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if he will list by local education authority in England the percentage of pupils in(a) maintained schools, (b) voluntary-aided schools and (c) grant-maintained schools entitled to free school meals. [30844]

Mr. Byers

[holding answer 27 February 19981The latest available information is shown in the following table.

Percentage of day pupils known to be eligible for free schools meals in maintained nursery, primary and secondary schools by local education authority area
England January 1997
Of which
LEA All schools Voluntary aided Grant maintained
City of London 51.4 51.4 1
Camden 37.0 35.9 15.2
Greenwich 38.7 30.9 41.6
Hackney 55.2 48.4 58.6
Hammersmith and Fulham 42.1 30.5 10.5
Islington 52.1 44.8 1
Kensington and Chelsea 44.1 35.2 21.8
Lambeth 46.8 39.0 40.5
Lewisham 38.1 30.6 39.6
Southwark 48.7 41.1 43.3
Tower Hamlets 60.9 50.2 31.5
Wandsworth 35.6 28.3 32.0
Westminster 43.7 37.2 1
Barking and Dagenham 26.4 20.4 1
Barnet 16.9 11.4 11.6
Bexley 15.5 11.8 10.2
Brent 27.5 27.5 25.7
Bromley 16.5 16.5 12.6
Croydon 24.4 15.5 16.6
Ealing 27.0 16.2 27.8
Enfield 21.6 11.5 18.4
Haringey 40.8 29.8 1
Harrow 13.2 5.7 14.3
Havering 13.7 6.1 6.3
Hillingdon 13.2 3.7 13.7
Hounslow 24.8 17.6 14.2
Kingston-upon-Thames 8.4 5.5 10.9
Merton 19.3 12.3 8.5
Newham 39.0 27.3 54.0
Redbridge 18.8 8.7 17.0
Richmond-upon-Thames 15.4 14.5 1
Sutton 11.6 8.5 3.8
Waltham Forest 32.5 19.9 13.5
Birmingham 35.3 29.7 19.8
Coventry 22.0 21.5 1
Dudley 17.6 24.6 14.0
Sandwell 26.2 18.7 28.7
Solihull 14.1 12.9 39.4
Walsall 23.5 16.6 9.7
Wolverhampton 24.3 19.7 23.7
Knowsley 47.4 44.4 58.3
Liverpool 41.2 40.2 21.1
St Helens 21.7 18.1 1
Sefton 24.4 26.1 1
Wirral 28.3 30.3 6.3
Bolton 20.5 16.0 11.4
Bury 17.3 14.8 13.5
Manchester 46.5 40.3 47.9
Oldham 25.7 18.1 1
Rochdale 27.8 20.7 15.4
Salford 33.2 27.7 12.5
Stockport 17.0 15.0 1
Tameside 23.1 17.1 11.7
Trafford 19.9 15.2 21.4
Wigan 18.2 15.9 1
Barnsley 25.7 17.7 1
Doncaster 24.7 16.7 6.0
Rotherham 21.5 19.6 1
Sheffield 26.9 25.3 15.0
Bradford 27.8 18.2 18.2
Calderdale 18.9 18.4 10.6
Kirklees 21.4 17.2 3.9
Leeds 21.3 18.1 7.8
Wakefield 19.2 14.0 1
Percentage of day pupils known to be eligible for free schools meals in maintained nursery, primary and secondary schools by local education authority area
England January 1997
Of which
LEA All schools Voluntary aided Grant maintained
Gateshead 25.5 22.0 1
Newcastle-upon-Tyne 34.4 28.0 1
North Tyneside 22.4 20.5 5.1
South Tyneside 32.3 24.8 1
Sunderland 27.9 17.8 1
Isles of Scilly 11.3 1 1
Bath and North East Somerset 13.0 12.4 8.7
City of Bristol 26.1 21.9 1
North Somerset 12.4 8.7 1
South Gloucestershire 11.5 9.9 1
Hartlepool 30.5 19.4 1
Middlesbrough 34.6 27.0 1
Redcar and Cleveland 28.0 24.9 1
Stockton-on-Tees 24.5 19.5 1
City of Kingston-Upon-Hull 28.3 17.7 1
East Riding of Yorkshire 10.7 7.6 5.6
North East Lincolnshire 22.9 18.1 1
North Lincolnshire 17.7 12.9 1
North Yorkshire 9.1 5.4 0.0
York 13.6 12.6 1
Bedfordshire 19.1 17.0 14.9
Berkshire 11.0 8.2 10.2
Buckinghamshire 9.0 3.4 9.0
Cambridge 15.2 16.5 12.3
Cheshire 15.8 16.3 11.7
Cornwall 17.7 14.2 9.8
Cumbria 15.8 15.9 9.1
Derbyshire 15.9 12.6 10.9
Devon 16.3 14.5 9.3
Dorset 9.8 6.2 8.3
Durham 20.9 15.7 1
East Sussex 19.2 18.2 1
Essex 15.2 10.4 12.4
Gloucestershire 11.8 7.8 8.9
Hampshire 13.2 10.5 9.5
Hereford and Worcester 9.8 6.4 6.4
Hertfordshire 11.3 7.7 8.1
Isle of Wight 21.4 18.7 1
Kent 16.2 15.0 13.0
Lancashire 21.9 17.1 7.7
Leicestershire 14.8 9.1 10.1
Lincolnshire 9.5 5.2 10.1
Norfolk 14.2 12.6 13.2
Northamptonshire 12.5 12.9 13.0
Northumberland 15.3 10.5 9.5
Nottinghamshire 22.3 14.8 29.5
Oxfordshire 10.3 10.6 3.5
Shropshire 15.0 14.2 14.3
Somerset 11.2 9.5 10.9
Staffordshire 16.5 13.7 15.6
Suffolk 14.7 10.0 1
Surrey 9.1 7.3 7.2
Warwickshire 11.1 10.1 9.5
West Sussex 11.3 9.3 7.5
Wiltshire 11.9 10.4 9.1
England 19.9 18.7 13.0
1not applicable—there are no schools of this type in the LEA area.