§ Mr. George Grantasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science how many children attended schools in the county of Northumberland during the school year ended August 1976; what percentage took school dinners and what 21W percentage of pupils taking dinners received them free of charge; and how these figures compare with the corresponding figures for each of the last four years.
Year (October) Pupils in attendance Percentage of pupils in attendance taking
school dinners
Percentage of pupils taking school dinners
who receive them free
of charge
1971 … … … … 82,658 69.2 20.1 1972 … … … … 82,398 74.3 19.1 1973 … … … … 86,767 76.5 16.8 1974 … … … … 48,554 85.9 12.8 1975 … … … … 48,872 84.8 11.7 NOTES:
- 1. Because of local government reorganisation the figures for years before 1974 are not directly comparable with those for later years.
- 2. The figures of pupils in attendance relate to a day in October on which the school meals census for the year in question was taken; thus the final entry in the above table relates to the school year ended August 1976.