§ Mr. LawsTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if she will publish information possessed by her Department which shows the proportion of students(a) on free school meals, (b) in families dependent on benefits, (c) considered to be from more deprived backgrounds as available indicators, in (i) specialist schools and (ii) non-specialist community and comprehensive schools; and if she will make a statement. [27048]
§ Mr. TimmsInformation on the numbers and proportions of pupils eligible for a free school meal for specialist and non-specialist community and comprehensive schools is shown in the following table. Similar information on students in families dependent on benefits and considered to be from more deprived backgrounds is not available.
England Specialist secondary schools Number of day pupils 769,973 Number of pupils eligible for FSM 112,865 Percentage of pupils eligible for FSM 14.7 Other maintained secondary schools Number of day pupils 2,457,000 Number of pupils eligible for FSM 396,811 Percentage of pupils eligible for FSM 16.2 Source:
Annual Schools Census (amended December 2001)