§ Mrs. Ann TaylorTo ask the Secretary of State for Education (1) if he will publish a table showing the number of children receiving free school meals in each local education authority area; what percentage that is of the total number of children receiving school meals in that area; and what are the national totals in each case;
(2) when he expects to publish the results of his Department's annual survey of school meals relating to 1993.
§ Mr. ForthThe results of the survey are contained in "Statistics of Education for Schools 1993" published on 30 June. A copy is available in the Library.
The table covers day pupils receiving free school meals in maintained schools in each local education authority in England in January 1993.
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LEA Number Percentage1 Corporation of London 108 64 Camden 5,576 52 Greenwich 9,544 59 Hackney 10,210 64 Hammersmith 4,880 49 Islington 7,943 61 Kensington and Chelsea 2,960 47 Lambeth 9,820 57 Lewisham 9,312 53 Southwark 10,804 61 Tower Hamlets 15,113 71 Wandsworth 7,404 48 Westminster 5,327 56 Barking and Dagenham 3,877 41 Barnet 5,258 25 Bexley 3,705 30 Brent 7,892 52 Bromley 4,392 28 Croydon 7,192 35 Ealing 7,877 47 Enfield 5,912 36 Haringey 8,368 54 Harrow 2,212 46 Havering 3,015 27 Hillingdon 2,952 40 Hounslow 5,576 35 Kingston-upon-Thames 1,232 35 Merton 3,171 40 Newham 9,608 63 Redbridge 4,149 28 Richmond-upon-Thames 1,822 30 Sutton 2,128 22 Waltham Forest 7,626 47 Birmingham 51,990 53 Coventry 10,638 53 Dudley 6,498 37 Sandwell 10,656 53 Solihull 4,201 26 Walsall 10,146 41 Wolverhampton 8,830 54 Knowsley 10,329 73 Liverpool 25,071 60 St. Helens 5,379 37
LEA Number Percentage1 Sefton 7,683 43 Wirral 12,158 47 Bolton 7,480 33 Bury 3,809 27 Manchester 26,722 62 Oldham 9,041 39 Rochdale 7,600 41 Salford 9,558 47 Stockport 5,817 26 Tameside 7,067 38 Trafford 4,987 35 Wigan 8,148 35 Barnsley 6,496 39 Doncaster 10,465 34 Rotherham 7,224 43 Sheffield 14,489 45 Bradford 20,249 43 Calderdale 5,341 35 Kirklees 10,230 32 Leeds 17,281 33 Wakefield 7,708 31 Gateshead 6,193 45 Newcastle-upon-Tyne 11,109 51 North Tyneside 5,262 33 South Tyneside 6,691 45 Sunderland 10,292 44 Isles of Scilly 11 12 Avon 20,979 38 Bedfordshire 13,055 28 Berkshire 10,083 25 Buckinghamshire 6,325 41 Cambridgeshire 11,896 35 Cheshire 19,067 29 Cleveland 23,819 43 Cornwall 10,664 33 Cumbria 8,231 23 Derbyshire 18,994 20 Devon 20,494 34 Dorset 7,053 40 Durham 17,065 32 East Sussex 13,248 37 Essex 25,885 34 Gloucestershire 8,592 37 Hampshire 26,038 36 Hereford and Worcester 7,932 32 Hertfordshire 14,812 22 Humberside 23,091 30 Isle of Wight 3,215 41 Kent 29,238 33 Lancashire 37,774 37 Leicestershire 17,676 30 Lincolnshire 6,201 31 Norfolk 12,146 32 North Yorkshire 7,997 17 Northamptonshire 8,802 41 Northumberland 6,440 24 Nottinghamshire 26,539 38 Oxfordshire 7,172 28 Shropshire 8,305 26 Somerset 6,188 39 Staffordshire 22,188 31 Suffolk 9,327 27 Surrey 9,463 17 Warwickshire 7,560 28 West Sussex 9,249 27 Wiltshire 8,709 31 ENGLAND 1,141,326 37 Number of day pupils who received a free school meal as a proportion of all school meals taken.
Information on pupils is derived from the annual returns made to the Department in January each year (Form 7).
Includes self-governing (GM) state schools.
Includes full-time and part-time day pupils in maintained schools, including nursery and special schools, who had a school meal on the Census day.
Excludes boarding pupils and pupils in hospital schools.