§ Mr. Clinton Davisasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what is her estimate of the number of children in schools in the London Borough of Hackney who have ceased to take school meals as a result of the recent price increase; and if she will make a statement.
§ Mr. van StraubenzeeI have made no such estimate. All local education authorities have been asked to make a special return of meals taken on a day in the week beginning 17th May.
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§ Mr. Dunnettasked the Secretary for Education and Science for each county borough with a population over 200,000 what proportion of pupils in maintained schools received free meals on the latest convenient date.
§ Mr. van StraubenzeeThe following information relates to a day in the autumn of 1970. The percentages given are percentages of all pupils present in schools on that day.
Percentages Wolverhampton … … 6.8 Derby … … 7.2 Leicester … … 7.2 Coventry … … 7.5 Sheffield … … 8.0 Southampton … … 8.2 Bristol … … 8.6 Birmingham … … 9.4 Plymouth … … 10.6 Portsmouth … … 11.2 Kingston-upon-Hull … … 11.6 Tees-side … … 11.6 Leeds … … 11.7 Stoke on Trent … … 11.8 Nottingham … … 12.4 Liverpool … … 12.5 Cardiff … … 13.0 Bradford … … 13.5 Sunderland … … 14.1 Manchester … … 19.0 Newcastle … … 23.4