Free School Meals (Hansard, 31 March 1995)

§ Mr. Robin Squire

Information—derived from schools' annual returns—about pupils known to be eligible for school meals is provided in the following table.

Percentage of day pupils known to be eligible for free school meals in secondary schools in each local education authority in England
January 1994
	Selective schools^{1 2 3}	Voluntary-aided schools²	Grant-maintained schools³	All secondary schools
Corporation of London	—	—	—	—
Camden	—	8.5	3.2	26.9
Greenwich	—	4.8	0.0	36.4
Hackney	—	19.1	0.0	59.2
Hammersmith	—	13.2	2.3	36.3
Islington	—	11.9	—	51.7
Kensington and Chelsea	—	6.2	2.8	40.6
Lambeth	—	—	21.7	51.4
Lewisham	—	6.8	—	40.4
Southwark	—	8.0	11.7	55.9
Tower Hamlets	—	11.0	1.8	64.0
Wandsworth	—	—	23.8	34.5
Westminster	—	14.0	—	44.1
Barking	—	2.1	—	18.5
Barnet	0.1	0.7	5.6	14.7
Bexley	0.8	—	1.8	10.9
Brent	—	—	17.9	27.4
Bromley	0.1	—	5.9	13.0
Croydon	—	2.0	3.4	18.7
Ealing	—	3.8	13.2	29.8
Enfield	0.1	1.2	4.9	18.5
Haringey	—	7.2	—	40.2
Harrow	—	0.8	0.7	13.8
Havering	—	0.5	1.6	10.4
Hillingdon	—	0.2	11.0	13.0
Hounslow	—	0.8	1.8	20.7
Kingston upon Thames	0.5	—	3.3	9.4
Merton	—	3.1	—	18.6
Newham	—	3.5	1.9	39.4
Redbridge	0.3	0.7	1.3	16.8

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Percentage of day pupils known to be eligible for free school meals in secondary schools in each local education authority in England
January 1994
	Selective schools^{1 2 3}	Voluntary-aided schools²	Grant-maintained schools³	All secondary schools
Richmond upon Thames	—	3.5	—	16.3
Sutton	0.5	—	2.2	8.7
Waltham Forest	—	1.9	2.2	34.1
Birmingham	0.5	2.7	4.4	31.6
Coventry	—	4.1	—	23.8
Dudley	—	2.0	4.0	16.7
Sandwell	—	0.5	1.3	25.3
Solihull	—1	2.8	—	12.0
Walsall	0.2	2.3	3.5	25.1
Wolverhampton	0.1	2.4	3.7	25.3
Knowsley	—	16.0	4.4	51.8
Liverpool	—	15.4	2.1	39.2
St. Helens	—	3.0	—	17.4
Sefton	—	6.0	—	20.7
Wirral	0.8	4.8	0.4	25.8
Bolton	—	1.9	1.5	16.4
Bury	—	2.2	—	13.5
Manchester	—	11.9	—	43.4
Oldham	—	32.8	—	53.5
Rochdale	—	4.9	1.4	28.9
Salford	—	4.5	0.6	26.3
Stockport	—	1.0	—	14.4
Tameside	—	1.9	2.0	19.8
Trafford	2.3	1.3	5.9	20.0
Wigan	—	3.7	—	17.5
Barnsley	—	—	—	22.8
Doncaster	—	1.2	—	22.5
Rotherham	—	0.7	—	18.5
Sheffield	—	—	1.2	24.2
Bradford	—	1.7	2.4	31.2
Calderdale	0.8	0.9	3.2	18.1
Kirklees	0.1	0.5	0.3	17.6
Leeds	—	2.2	0.2	18.7
Wakefield	—	0.7	—	17.3
Gateshead	—	4.6	—	24.9
Newcastle upon Tyne	—	3.7	—	27.4
North Tyneside	—	1.0	—	18.2
South Tyneside	—	3.9	—	25.8
Sunderland	—	2.5	—	25.8
Isles of Scilly	—	—	—	35.8
Avon	—	0.6	0.3	15.5
Bedfordshire	—	1.3	2.5	16.6
Berkshire	0.4	0.4	1.3	8.5
Buckinghamshire	0.5	0.3	2.1	8.6
Cambridgeshire	—1	0.2	4.8	13.1
Cheshire	—	1.9	0.5	12.0
Cleveland	—	4.4	—	28.0
Cornwall	—	—	—	15.9
Cumbria	—	0.9	2.2	12.1
Derbyshire	—	0.6	2.8	13.5
Devon	0.5	0.5	0.8	12.9
Dorset	0.9	0.5	2.1	10.2
Durham	—	1.7	—	17.4
East Sussex	—	1.6	—	18.1
Essex	0.2	0.5	7.0	12.3
Gloucestershire	0.6	0.4	5.8	11.0
Hampshire	—	0.4	1.7	10.6
Hereford and Worcester	—	0.3	0.5	9.6
Hertfordshire	—	0.5	2.1	9.6

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Percentage of day pupils known to be eligible for free school meals in secondary schools in each local education authority in England
January 1994
	Selective schools^{1 2 3}	Voluntary-aided schools²	Grant-maintained schools³	All secondary schools
Humberside	—	0.9	—	17.3
Isle of Wight	—	1.2	—	21.0
Kent	1.1	0.7	5.5	13.2
Lancashire	0.1	2.2	0.6	19.7
Leicestershire	—	0.5	0.7	12.5
Lincolnshire	1.1	0.1	4.3	9.8
Norfolk	—	0.3	2.6	10.7
North Yorkshire	0.2	0.7	—	7.4
Northamptonshire	—	1.2	3.1	12.5
Northumberland	—	0.5	0.2	12.7
Nottinghamshire	—	1.7	0.7	20.0
Oxfordshire	—	0.7	—	9.8
Shropshire	0.0	0.4	2.1	13.6
Somerset	0.0	0.3	0.0	10.7
Staffordshire	—	0.7	0.9	13.3
Suffolk	—	0.4	—	11.7
Surrey	—	0.6	1.5	7.2
Warwickshire	0.2	0.6	1.8	8.7
West Sussex	—	1.1	—	9.2
Wiltshire	0.1	0.1	2.5	9.8
England	0.1	1.9	2.1	17.7
¹ Schools which admit pupils wholly or mainly with reference to ability or aptitude.
² Some voluntary schools are selective.
³ Some grant-maintained schools are selective.

—There are no schools of this type in the LEA.