HC Deb 21 March 2000 vol 346 cc505-6W
Mr. Hilary Benn

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if he will list(a) the percentage of pupils entitled to free school meals in each of the grammar schools in England and (b) the average percentage of pupils entitled to free school meals in each local education authority where there are one or more grammar schools. [115505]

Ms Estelle Morris

Information on free school meals for individual schools is not published centrally.

The available information on school meals is shown in the table.

Percentage of pupils known to be eligible for free school meals in

maintained secondary schools 1 in those local education authorities

with one or more selective grammar schools, January 1999

Percentage of pupils known to be eligible for free schools meals
England 16.9
Barnet 15.9
Bexley 14.1
Bromley 13.0
Enfield 21.4
Kingston-upon-Thames 8.8
Redbridge 17.7
Sutton 8.3
Birmingham 33.6
Walsall 18.7
Wolverhampton 21.6
Liverpool 37.6
Wirral 26.6
Trafford 19.0
Calderdale 17.1
Kirklees 18.6
North Yorkshire 6.9
Buckinghamshire 7.4
Poole 8.2
Bournemouth 11.8
Stoke on Trent 24.9
Wiltshire 6.9
Reading 13.5
Slough 16.5
Devon 10.1
Percentage of pupils known to be eligible for free school meals in

maintained secondary schools 1 in those local education authorities

with one or more selective grammar schools, January 1999

Percentage of pupils known to be eligible for free schools meals
Plymouth 15.4
Torbay 16.2
Essex 11.0
Southend-on-Sea 15.5
Kent 12.3
Medway 11.8
Lancashire 17.3
Telford and Wrekin 19.1
Cumbria 13.1
Gloucestershire 8.2
Lincolnshire 8.7
Warwickshire 8.3
1 Includes selective grammar schools

Mr. Hilary Benn

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what was the average percentage of pupils entitled to free school meals in the(a) 100 and (b) 200 schools with the (i) highest and (ii) lowest proportion of pupils achieving five grade A*-C passes at GCSE in the last year for which figures are available. [115533]

Ms Estelle Morris

The proportions of pupilsknown to be eligible for free school meals

averaged over the 100 maintained, mainstream secondary schools with the highest, and lowest, percentages of 15 year old pupils achieving five or more GCSE/GNVQ grades A*-C in 1999 were two and 44 per cent. respectively.

The proportions of pupils known to be eligible for free school meals

averaged over the 200 maintained, mainstream secondary schools with the highest, and lowest, percentages of 15 year old pupils achieving five or more GCSE/GNVQ grades A*-C in 1999 were 3 per cent. and 42 per cent. respectively.