§ Mr. WillisTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills whether his Department has released free school meals figures for individual secondary schools to organisations for research purposes within the last 12 months. [92833]
§ Mr. Stephen TwiggThe Department has released free school meals figures for individual secondary schools to a number of organisations for research purposes within the last 12 months. Before doing so, the organisations signed confidentiality declarations which committed them to maintaining the confidentiality of the data and limited their use of this information to the stated research purpose.